Key Quotations - Other

Question 1

Irene’s mother worried about Clare (P1 Chp2)

Answer 1

‘I’m worried about Clare, she seems so unhappy!’

Question 2

Description of Gertrude (P1 Chp3)

Answer 2

‘For Gertrude too had married a white man, though it couldn’t be truthfully said that she was ‘passing’’

Question 3

Gertrude’s colourism (P1 Chp3)

Answer 3

‘Nobody wants a dark child’

Question 4

Talking about Clare after interaction with John Bellew (P1 Chp3)

Answer 4

‘My God! What an awful chance! She must be plumb crazy.’
‘Yes, it certainly seems risky’

Question 5

Black community (P2 Chp2) Irene

Answer 5

‘It’s the N.W.L dance…the Negro Welfare League, you know. I’m on the ticket committee’

Question 6

White people’s treatment of Black people at the dance (P2 Chp2)

Answer 6

‘A few purely and frankly to enjoy themselves. Others to get material to turn into shekels. More, to gaze on these great and near great while they gaze on the Negroes’

Question 7

Predatory men (P2 Chp3)

Answer 7

‘You don’t subscribe to the general opinion about their reason for coming up here. Purely predatory’

Question 8

White people passing as coloured (P2 Chp3)

Answer 8

‘But I don’t think it would be so simple for a white person to ‘pass’ as coloured’

Question 9

Final line (P3 Chp4)

Answer 9

‘Death by misadventure, I’m inclined to believe. Let’s go up and have another look at that window’

Question 10

Children questioning race (P3 Chp4)

Answer 10

‘Dad, why is it that they only Lynch coloured people?’