Sugar from Kelsey Flashcards

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Sugar: What is the name of the plantation where Sugar lives?

A

River Road Plantation

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Sugar: What is the name of Sugar’s best friend (before she moves north)?

A

Lizzie

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Sugar: Who does Sugar play with from the plantation house?

A

Billy Wills

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Sugar: Who takes care of Sugar after her parents die?

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Mister (Jem) & Missus (Eugenie) Beale

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Sugar: Why did Sugar pull a tail feather from Rooster Ugly?

A

He pecked the littlest hen

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Sugar: What does Sugar call the littlest hen?

A

Peanut

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Sugar: What does Sugar call the rooster at the plantation?

A

Rooster Ugly

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Sugar: Who does Sugar want to give a skunk to?

A

Mrs. Thornton

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Sugar: Whose stories does Sugar enjoy listening to?

A

Mister Beale’s

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Sugar: What years are the setting for the book?

A

1870-1871

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Sugar: What state is the book Sugar set in?

A

Louisiana

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Sugar: When Billy and Sugar are rafting, who does Billy say are coming soon?

A

The Chinamen

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Sugar: Which day is the anniversary of Sugar’s mom’s death?

A

New Years Day

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Sugar: Where does Sugar hide on New Year’s Day?

A

Under an evergreen

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Sugar: What are Sugar’s mom’s last words?

A

Do. See. Feel. Survive.

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Sugar: Who does Sugar think is the best trickster from Mister Beale’s stories?

A

Br’er Rabbit

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Sugar: What does Sugar call the cat on the plantation before the Chinese men arrive?

A

No Name

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Sugar: What name does Sugar give the cat on the plantation?

A

(Emporer) Jade

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Sugar: When Sugar meets Bo, she assumes his name is short for what?

A

Beauregard

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Sugar: What does Sugar spend the day looking for the day before the Chinese men arrive?

A

Eagle eggs

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Sugar: How many trees does Sugar climb looking at eagle’s nests?

A

Fifteen

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Sugar: Who gives Sugar a ride to the cemetery on Chinese New Year?

A

Beau

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Sugar: What does Sugar call it when someones look at her like they feel sorry for her?

A

“pity-pity” looks

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Sugar: What Chinese animal does Sugar have for the year she was born?

A

Monkey

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Sugar: Which Chinese animal is considered the trickiest, like Br'er Rabbit?
Rat (tricked Cat out of a place on the calendar)
26
Sugar: Who finds the coin in the dumplings they make as a group on Chinese New Year?
Mrs. Thornton
27
Sugar: Which Chinese animal was the last to make it in the race?
Pig
28
Sugar: When Mister Aires doesn't know which year he was born, which Chinese animal does he pick?
Pig
29
Sugar: Who shares the same Chinese animal with Mister Beale?
Master Liu (horse)
30
Sugar: What is Mrs. Thornton's Chinese animal?
Rooster
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Sugar: What was Sugar's mom's name?
(Missus) Sarah
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Sugar: What does Sugar break when trying to wake Billy up to play?
His window
33
Sugar: What does Billy suggest Sugar be called since she doesn't like her name?
Pepper
34
Sugar: Who are the plantation cooks?
Manon and Annie
35
Sugar: What instrument does Billy bring to show Sugar at her shack?
A harmonica
36
Sugar: Why does someone ring the cowbell in the middle of the night?
Billy is sick
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Sugar: What does Sugar do to calm Billy when he's sick?
She holds his hand and whistles
38
Sugar: Why does Sugar say Billy couldn't have had brain fever?
She says, "You don't have any brains"
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Sugar: What did Tom the Overseer say was the best medicine when someone was sick?
The lash
40
Sugar: What are on the shelves in Billy's room?
River rocks and books
41
Sugar: Who taught Sugar how to whistle?
Billy
42
Sugar: What does Billy give Sugar as a gift for being a good friend when he was sick?
The Chinese finger trap
43
Sugar: When does Missus Wills say Billy and Sugar are allowed to play?
After he's sick, only when Sugar isn't working
44
Sugar: Why does Billy say he wants to work in the sugarcane fields?
"How else am I going to learn about cane?" and "Time's are changing"
45
Sugar: Who loans Billy a hat when he's working the sugarcane?
Mister Beale
46
Sugar: What does Sugar give Billy for the cuts on his hand?
A cloth to wrap around it
47
Sugar: Who gets upset about Billy slowing down the harvesting pace?
Mister Tom, the Overseer
48
Sugar: Who defends Billy when Mister Tom says he's going too slow?
Mister Wills ("That's my son")
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Sugar: What does Missus Wills bring to the cane fields with Manon and Annie?
Lemonade, water, and biscuits stuff with smoked ham
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Sugar: What does Sugar offer to Mister Tom when he's upset that the workers are being spoiled?
The Chinese finger trap
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Sugar: Who covers Sugar with his body when Mister Tom tries to whip her?
Beau
52
Sugar: How long had Tom been the Overseer on Mister Wills' plantation?
Twenty years
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Sugar: What does Billy promise when he'll be Overseer?
Lemonade and biscuits twice a day
54
Sugar: What does Beau bring to show Sugar on the last half-day Sunday during harvest?
A red kite with a white ribboned tail
55
Sugar: What do Sugar and Billy say they'll show Beau down at the river?
Alligators
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Sugar: What does Beau compare alligators to?
Dragons
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Sugar: What does Billy say an emperor is like?
A king, more powerful than a president
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Sugar: According to Beau's story, what saved the Chinese rice paddies from flooding?
Yellow Dragon who dug channels for the extra water
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Sugar: Billy says baby alligator skin is soft like what?
Velvet
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Sugar: How many baby gators do Sugar, Billy, and Beau find in a nest?
Three
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Sugar: What does Mister Tom hit Beau with when they've been looking at alligators?
The butt of his rifle
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Sugar: Who offers to be Sugar's honorary brother when she's sad she doesn't have one?
Beau
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Sugar: Who taught Sugar how to find constellations?
Billy
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Sugar: What does Beau give Sister Sugar as a gift?
A map of the world with her (Chinese) name on it
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Sugar: Which kind of sugar brings more money?
White (instead of brown)
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Sugar: What does Mister Wills say about Billy at the end of the harvest season?
"Best Overseer I ever had!"
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Sugar: What is the gift Beau has for Sugar and Billy around the fire at the end of harvest?
A yellow dragon "costume"
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Sugar: Who does Sugar go looking for at the mill to hear stories around the fire at the end of harvest?
The cat, Jade
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Sugar: What does Sugar see Mister Tom doing at the mill in the night?
Setting fire to it
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Sugar: Who does Sugar go into the mill to rescue from the fire?
Jade, the cat
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Sugar: Who helps Sugar get out of the fire in the mill?
Billy
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Sugar: Who did Mister Wills originally think started the fire at the mill?
Sugar
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Sugar: Who does Sugar see first when she wakes up after the fire?
Jade (cat), Billy (human)
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Sugar: What game does Sugar play with Mister Zheng while she's recovering from her burns?
Checkers
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Sugar: What is Mister Wills' big announcement to the workers after the mill fire?
He's sold River Road to Jena DeLavier
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Sugar: Where does Mister Wills say his family will go after selling the plantation?
New Orleans
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Sugar: What is the gift Sugar and Beau make for Billy when he's leaving River Road?
A dragon kite
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Sugar: Where does Beau say he and Master Liu are headed after River Road is sold?
Waipahu Plantation in Hawaii
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Sugar: Where does Sugar tell the Beales they'll head to start looking for their children?
St. Louis
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Sugar: Who does Sugar compare the Beales to when they say they don't want to leave River Road?
Hyena
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Sugar: What do Sugar and the Beales travel on to get to St. Louis?
A steamship
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Sugar: What do Billy and Sugar pretend to be when they're rafting on the river?
Pirate captains
83
Sugar: What tool do the workers use to cut sugarcane?
A machete
84
Sugar: What do Sugar and her Ma eat at night?
Cornbread cakes
85
Sugar: Where do the Chinamen want to go back to?
British Guiana
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Sugar: At the beginning of the book, Sugar says that even nasty _____ and _____ are better than sugar.
Okra and green beans
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Sugar: Sugar said she and her ma always smelled of what 3 things?
Sugar, sweat, and dirt
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Sugar: What did Sugar's Ma say she smelled like when she was born?
Spring
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Sugar: How old was Sugar after she was born that Ma went back to work cutting cane?
2 days old
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Sugar: How many rows of slave shacks are there at the River Road plantation?
2 rows
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Sugar: Sugar says there haven't been enough sugar cane workers since what event?
Emancipation
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Sugar: What phrase do people use when they're scared to head north to the unknown?
"The bad I know is better than the bad I don't"
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Sugar: When was Sugar's Pa sold?
Right after she was born
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Sugar: Who thinks Mister Beale's stories are useless?
Missus Beale
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Sugar: Why is Lizzie lovesick?
Mo Johnson and his family headed north
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Sugar: Whose job is it to boil the sugar?
Mister Waters
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Sugar: Whose job is it to separate brown sugar crystals from white?
Missus Celeste
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Sugar: What did Mister and Missus Beale tell their kids was the reason they couldn't go north?
Too old and slow
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Sugar: What makes Sugar throw up at the end of harvest party at the beginning of the book?
Seeing Missus Thornton's sugar squares
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Sugar: When Sugar is by the river, she remembers her mom telling her that touching what would bring good luck?
A turtle's back
101
Sugar: How did Billy hear that Sugar hates her name?
From the cooks, Mannon and Annie
102
Sugar: What toy does Billy show Sugar that his dad bought in New Orleans?
A China finger trap
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Sugar: What instrument does Sugar say Billy sometimes practices that sounds like a screaming cat?
Violin
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Sugar: What color is the Wills' plantation home?
Yellow
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Sugar: What is the name of Billy's older brother?
Anthony
106
Sugar: Where was Billy's brother sent?
To school in New Orleans
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Sugar: What does Billy have that Sugar has never heard of, that he says is a cushion for your head?
A pillow
108
Sugar: What do Billy and Sugar use as bait when they fish in the river?
Balls of cornmeal
109
Sugar: Who is always waiting on the porch for Sugar when she comes back from playing?
Missus Beale
110
Sugar: Whose foot did Billy tie to the bed?
His tutor
111
Sugar: What is the word Billy's mom uses to mean he shouldn't study all the time?
Moderation
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Sugar: Who built the river raft that Sugar and Billy use to be pirate captains?
Billy and Anthony
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Sugar: What was Sugar's first big secret she helped keep?
That her mom was sick