Purple hibiscus quotes

Question 1

3 quotes about PAPA

Answer 1

1. “Papa had just CHECKMATED Jaja when we heard the martial music on the radio”
2. ‘Papa’s sister, Aunty Ifeoma, said he was too much of a COLONIAL PROSUCT’
3. ‘Papa’s title was omelora, after all, The One Who Does for the Community.’

Question 2

2 quotes about MAMA

Answer 2

1. ‘Her eyes were VACANT, like those of the mad people who wandered around the roadside garbage dumps in town…’
   2.’There were never tears on her face. The last time, only two weeks ago, when her swollen eye was still the color of an overripe avocado, she had rearranged them after she polished them’

Question 3

3 quotes about JAJA

Answer 3

1. ‘His seventeen year old face had grown lines; they zigzagged across his forehead’
2. ‘We will take care of the baby. We will protect him’.
3. ‘Jaja’s defiance seemed to me now like Aunty Ifeoma’s experimental purple hibiscus: rare, fragrant with undertones of freedom

Question 4

3 quotes about KAMBILI

Answer 4

1. ‘I sat down, closed my eyes, and began to count. Counting made it seem not that long, made it seem not that bad.’
2. ‘I wanted to make Papa proud, to do as well as he had done.’
   3.’When I thought of heaven as a child, I visualized Papa’s room, the softness, the creaminess, the endlessness’

Question 5

aunty ifeoma

Answer 5

1”her whisper was just like her - tall, exuberant, fearless, loud, largerthanlife”
2. “ the way she gestured as she spoke, the way she smiled to show thatwidegap.”
3. “ she walked fast, like one who knew just before where she was going and what she was going to do there. And she spoke the wayshewalked.”