end questions Color Purple

Question 1

Why doesn’t Celie write to God anymore?

Answer 1

because she can now write to Nettie

Question 2

What does Shug teach Celie about God?

Answer 2

that God isn’t a person but an it. he is inside everyone, and they just have to find it

Question 3

How does Mr. ________ react when he learns Shug is leaving and is planning to take Celie with her?

Answer 3

he forbids it and says it will be over his dead body

Question 4

What does Celie do that surprises everyone at the dinner table?

Answer 4

she speaks out against her husband, she also stabs her with her knife in the hand as he tries to slap her

Question 5

Who is leaving with Shug to go to Tennessee?

Answer 5

Celie and Squeak

Question 6

Who offers to take care of Suzie Q (Squeak and Harpo’s little girl) while Squeak goes north to sing?

Answer 6

Sofia

Question 7

What does Mr. ________ say to Celie as she is leaving for Tennessee?

Answer 7

he insults her in every way possible

Question 8

What does Celie do to Albert as she is leaving for Tennessee?

Answer 8

she puts a curse in him

Question 9

After moving to Memphis, what type of business does Celie start? What is the name of the business?

Answer 9

she begins her own buisness and calls it Folkspants, Unlimited

Question 10

Celie comes to visit Sofia and Harpo when Sofia’s mother dies. What are Sofia and Harpo arguing about when Celie arrives?

Answer 10

Sofia wants to be a pallbearer in her mother’s funeral, but Harpo thinks it is a man’s job.

Question 11

What is Celie’s explanation when Harpo says Mary Agnes is different?

Answer 11

Harpo says that Mary Agnes has changed, she has been smoking with Grady

Question 12

What does Celie learn about Mr. _______ and how he’s been living since she moved away?

Answer 12

Albert has been working very hard in the fields and keeping the house clean.

Question 13

What happens to make Sofia have feelings for Harpo once again?

Answer 13

she sees how kindly Harpo treats his father when he is dealing with Celie’s absence and begins to have feelings for him once again.

Question 14

Sofia tells Celie Mr. ___ was in bad shape after Celie left him. What happened to turn Mr. ___’s life around?

Answer 14

sending the rest of her letters from Nettie

Question 15

What happens to Nettie and Samuel’s relationship when they travel to England?

Answer 15

They realize their love for each other and get married.

Question 16

How are the Olinka people treated after the rubber factory is built?

Answer 16

they are forced to move to a land that is without water for 6 months of the year, there is also no more roofleaf

Question 17

What does Tashi do that upsets Adam?

Answer 17

She has gone through with the tribal ceremony of cutting or scarring her face and she has had the female initiation ceremony.

Question 18

What does Celie inherit when her stepfather dies?

Answer 18

the house that she grew up in was torn down, so she inherits a newly built one

Question 19

What crushing news does Shug give Celie when she goes back to Memphis?

Answer 19

she fell in love with a 19 year old boy called Germaine

Question 20

Why does Henrietta eat yams, even though she hates the taste?

Answer 20

she suffers from a blood disease and the yams help

Question 21

What is the only piece of mail Mr. ___ puts directly into Celie’s hands?

Answer 21

a letter that says that Nettie’s ship had been sunk

Question 22

Who is Miss Eleanor Jane, and what type of relationship does Sofia have with her?

Answer 22

-the mayors daughter
- she feels some kindness because Eleanor Jane showed her kindness, but the pain and racism that Sofia endured prevents her from loving anybody else in the mayor’s family.

Question 23

What reasons does Tashi give for refusing to marry Adam?

Answer 23

she believes she won’t be accepted in America
she thinks he will leave her

Question 24

What does Adam do to prove his love and devotion to Tashi?

Answer 24

scarred his face (ritual)

Question 25

What does Albert ask Celie? What is her response?

Answer 25

to marry him -> her response is ‘no’

Question 26

With whom is Celie reunited at the end of the novel?

Answer 26

Nettie, Adam, Olivia