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Sugar from Kelsey Flashcards

1
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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?

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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?

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Rooster Ugly

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

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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?

A

Rat (tricked Cat out of a place on the calendar)

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Sugar: Who finds the coin in the dumplings they make as a group on Chinese New Year?

A

Mrs. Thornton

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Sugar: Which Chinese animal was the last to make it in the race?

A

Pig

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Sugar: When Mister Aires doesn’t know which year he was born, which Chinese animal does he pick?

A

Pig

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Sugar: Who shares the same Chinese animal with Mister Beale?

A

Master Liu (horse)

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Sugar: What is Mrs. Thornton’s Chinese animal?

A

Rooster

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Sugar: What was Sugar’s mom’s name?

A

(Missus) Sarah

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Sugar: What does Sugar break when trying to wake Billy up to play?

A

His window

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Sugar: What does Billy suggest Sugar be called since she doesn’t like her name?

A

Pepper

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Sugar: Who are the plantation cooks?

A

Manon and Annie

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Sugar: What instrument does Billy bring to show Sugar at her shack?

A

A harmonica

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36
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Sugar: Why does someone ring the cowbell in the middle of the night?

A

Billy is sick

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Sugar: What does Sugar do to calm Billy when he’s sick?

A

She holds his hand and whistles

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Sugar: Why does Sugar say Billy couldn’t have had brain fever?

A

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?

A

The lash

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Sugar: What are on the shelves in Billy’s room?

A

River rocks and books

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Sugar: Who taught Sugar how to whistle?

A

Billy

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Sugar: What does Billy give Sugar as a gift for being a good friend when he was sick?

A

The Chinese finger trap

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Sugar: When does Missus Wills say Billy and Sugar are allowed to play?

A

After he’s sick, only when Sugar isn’t working

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Sugar: Why does Billy say he wants to work in the sugarcane fields?

A

“How else am I going to learn about cane?” and “Time’s are changing”

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Sugar: Who loans Billy a hat when he’s working the sugarcane?

A

Mister Beale

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Sugar: What does Sugar give Billy for the cuts on his hand?

A

A cloth to wrap around it

47
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Sugar: Who gets upset about Billy slowing down the harvesting pace?

A

Mister Tom, the Overseer

48
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Sugar: Who defends Billy when Mister Tom says he’s going too slow?

A

Mister Wills (“That’s my son”)

49
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Sugar: What does Missus Wills bring to the cane fields with Manon and Annie?

A

Lemonade, water, and biscuits stuff with smoked ham

50
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Sugar: What does Sugar offer to Mister Tom when he’s upset that the workers are being spoiled?

A

The Chinese finger trap

51
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Sugar: Who covers Sugar with his body when Mister Tom tries to whip her?

52
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Sugar: How long had Tom been the Overseer on Mister Wills’ plantation?

A

Twenty years

53
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Sugar: What does Billy promise when he’ll be Overseer?

A

Lemonade and biscuits twice a day

54
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Sugar: What does Beau bring to show Sugar on the last half-day Sunday during harvest?

A

A red kite with a white ribboned tail

55
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Sugar: What do Sugar and Billy say they’ll show Beau down at the river?

A

Alligators

56
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Sugar: What does Beau compare alligators to?

57
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Sugar: What does Billy say an emperor is like?

A

A king, more powerful than a president

58
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Sugar: According to Beau’s story, what saved the Chinese rice paddies from flooding?

A

Yellow Dragon who dug channels for the extra water

59
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Sugar: Billy says baby alligator skin is soft like what?

60
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Sugar: How many baby gators do Sugar, Billy, and Beau find in a nest?

61
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Sugar: What does Mister Tom hit Beau with when they’ve been looking at alligators?

A

The butt of his rifle

62
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Sugar: Who offers to be Sugar’s honorary brother when she’s sad she doesn’t have one?

63
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Sugar: Who taught Sugar how to find constellations?

64
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Sugar: What does Beau give Sister Sugar as a gift?

A

A map of the world with her (Chinese) name on it

65
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Sugar: Which kind of sugar brings more money?

A

White (instead of brown)

66
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Sugar: What does Mister Wills say about Billy at the end of the harvest season?

A

“Best Overseer I ever had!”

67
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Sugar: What is the gift Beau has for Sugar and Billy around the fire at the end of harvest?

A

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?

A

The cat, Jade

69
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Sugar: What does Sugar see Mister Tom doing at the mill in the night?

A

Setting fire to it

70
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Sugar: Who does Sugar go into the mill to rescue from the fire?

A

Jade, the cat

71
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Sugar: Who helps Sugar get out of the fire in the mill?

72
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Sugar: Who did Mister Wills originally think started the fire at the mill?

73
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Sugar: Who does Sugar see first when she wakes up after the fire?

A

Jade (cat), Billy (human)

74
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Sugar: What game does Sugar play with Mister Zheng while she’s recovering from her burns?

75
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Sugar: What is Mister Wills’ big announcement to the workers after the mill fire?

A

He’s sold River Road to Jena DeLavier

76
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Sugar: Where does Mister Wills say his family will go after selling the plantation?

A

New Orleans

77
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Sugar: What is the gift Sugar and Beau make for Billy when he’s leaving River Road?

A

A dragon kite

78
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Sugar: Where does Beau say he and Master Liu are headed after River Road is sold?

A

Waipahu Plantation in Hawaii

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Sugar: Where does Sugar tell the Beales they’ll head to start looking for their children?

80
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Sugar: Who does Sugar compare the Beales to when they say they don’t want to leave River Road?

81
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Sugar: What do Sugar and the Beales travel on to get to St. Louis?

A

A steamship

82
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Sugar: What do Billy and Sugar pretend to be when they’re rafting on the river?

A

Pirate captains

83
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Sugar: What tool do the workers use to cut sugarcane?

84
Q

Sugar: What do Sugar and her Ma eat at night?

A

Cornbread cakes

85
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Sugar: Where do the Chinamen want to go back to?

A

British Guiana

86
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Sugar: At the beginning of the book, Sugar says that even nasty _____ and _____ are better than sugar.

A

Okra and green beans

87
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Sugar: Sugar said she and her ma always smelled of what 3 things?

A

Sugar, sweat, and dirt

88
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Sugar: What did Sugar’s Ma say she smelled like when she was born?

89
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Sugar: How old was Sugar after she was born that Ma went back to work cutting cane?

A

2 days old

90
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Sugar: How many rows of slave shacks are there at the River Road plantation?

91
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Sugar: Sugar says there haven’t been enough sugar cane workers since what event?

A

Emancipation

92
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Sugar: What phrase do people use when they’re scared to head north to the unknown?

A

“The bad I know is better than the bad I don’t”

93
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Sugar: When was Sugar’s Pa sold?

A

Right after she was born

94
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Sugar: Who thinks Mister Beale’s stories are useless?

A

Missus Beale

95
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Sugar: Why is Lizzie lovesick?

A

Mo Johnson and his family headed north

96
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Sugar: Whose job is it to boil the sugar?

A

Mister Waters

97
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Sugar: Whose job is it to separate brown sugar crystals from white?

A

Missus Celeste

98
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Sugar: What did Mister and Missus Beale tell their kids was the reason they couldn’t go north?

A

Too old and slow

99
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Sugar: What makes Sugar throw up at the end of harvest party at the beginning of the book?

A

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

A turtle’s back

101
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Sugar: How did Billy hear that Sugar hates her name?

A

From the cooks, Mannon and Annie

102
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Sugar: What toy does Billy show Sugar that his dad bought in New Orleans?

A

A China finger trap

103
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Sugar: What instrument does Sugar say Billy sometimes practices that sounds like a screaming cat?

104
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Sugar: What color is the Wills’ plantation home?

105
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Sugar: What is the name of Billy’s older brother?

106
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Sugar: Where was Billy’s brother sent?

A

To school in New Orleans

107
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Sugar: What does Billy have that Sugar has never heard of, that he says is a cushion for your head?

108
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Sugar: What do Billy and Sugar use as bait when they fish in the river?

A

Balls of cornmeal

109
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Sugar: Who is always waiting on the porch for Sugar when she comes back from playing?

A

Missus Beale

110
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Sugar: Whose foot did Billy tie to the bed?

111
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Sugar: What is the word Billy’s mom uses to mean he shouldn’t study all the time?

A

Moderation

112
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Sugar: Who built the river raft that Sugar and Billy use to be pirate captains?

A

Billy and Anthony

113
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Sugar: What was Sugar’s first big secret she helped keep?

A

That her mom was sick

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