the color purple context

Question 1

when and where did slavery originate?

Answer 1

1400s
settlers from Portugal came to Africa

Question 2

how did slaves make owners extremely wealthy?

Answer 2

hard labour and reproduction

Question 3

how many millions of Africans were forcibly carried to the Americas?

Answer 3

11-12 million`

Question 4

where did slaves originally work?

Answer 4

plantations

Question 5

what happened in 1730s Chesapeake?

Answer 5

natural increase of the black population meant the majority of residents had never seen Africa

Question 6

“negroes from __ to __ suite this ________ best” ~ Charleston Slave Trader

Answer 6

15 to 25
market

Question 7

what threat did pre 1860s Georgia think slaves posed?

Answer 7

danger to every white person in Georgia

Question 8

when was the Slave Code Act?

Answer 8

1755`

Question 9

in Georgia pre 1860s there was a long, deadly ______ to the _______ which would take ________ resulting in __% of slaves dying before the end of the journey

Answer 9

march
coast
months
40

Question 10

did Georgia become an extension of Europe or Africa?

Answer 10

Africa

Question 11

which state had the largest number of plantations in the south?

Answer 11

Georgia

Question 12

white Georgians viewed slavery as ______________ indispensable

Answer 12

economically

Question 13

when was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 13

1863

Question 14

“all persons held as ________ are, and henceforward shall be _____” ~ The Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 14

slaves
free

Question 15

what was the issue with the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 15

Only states seceded US states applied

Question 16

[Critical Comment] Lovalerie King ~ “Walker achieves a previously unrealised depiction of the __________ approach to life in the character of ____ _____ (who) Chooses an alternative to __________ and embraces a ____,____,_____ sexuality”

Answer 16

womanist
Shug Avery
mothering
free, open, fluid

Question 17

What are the three types of woman Walker uses?

Answer 17

Suspended
Assimilated
Emergent

Question 18

[Critical Comment] Ralph D Story ~ “no other black woman writer has sought or gained so much _______________ ___________ from black males”

Answer 18

retrospective retribution

Question 19

[Critical Comment] Pauline Kael ~ “________ female _____________”

Answer 19

rampant
chauvinism

Question 20

[Critical Comment] Ishmael Reed ~ “in league with white feminists who have systematically conspired to _________ ______ ___”

Answer 20

denigrate
black men

Question 21

[Critical Comment] Ishmael Reed ~ “Walker’s representation of ____ is so marvelously crafted - so _______ - that the _____ _____ characters become ____ and increasingly ______________

Answer 21

Shug
whole
black male
flat
insignificant

Question 22

[Critical Comment] George Stade ~ “___________ in the novel is _______,irreducible, the __________ _____ of all that’s wrong in the world”

Answer 22

masculinity
radical
causeless cause

Question 23

[Critical Comment] George Stade ~ “the only way that the male characters can be _____ is by giving them the _________ to be _____ by realising the ______ already in them”

Answer 23

saved
courage
women
woman

Question 24

[Critical Comment] Trudier Harris ~ “anyone can ___ her, or say anything to her, or commit _________ against her, and she will __________ say something to the effect that she is ______ ____

Answer 24

use
violence
placidly
still here

Question 25

[Critical Comment] Maroula Joannou ~ "to criticise [Celie] for ____________ is to do so in ____________ of the fear which male __________ produces in women"

Answer 25

passivity ignorance violence

Question 26

[Critical Comment] Maroula Joannou ~ "what is surprising is not that the ___________ of victims of __________ violence like Celie is _____ to develop but that it ____ ____________ at all

Answer 26

resistance domestic slow ever develops

Question 27

[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ "read Walker's novel as a _____-_______ revision of a ___________"

Answer 27

post-modern fairytale

Question 28

[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ "the novel engages two delightful aspects of fairytales: ___________ ___________ and ___________ _______

Answer 28

fantastic happenings improbable endings

Question 29

[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ "____ transforms and can make all things ___ and __________"

Answer 29

love new beautiful

Question 30

[Critical Comment] Thomas F Marvin ~ "readings of the novel as __________ more convincing than those that try to force the novel into a ___________ ____

Answer 30

fairytale realistic mode

Question 31

[Critical Comment] Steven Weisenbrger ~ "Walker's ________ errand had taken __________ over the elements of ___________ art"

Answer 31

womanist priority narrative

Question 32

[Critical Comment] Steven Weisenbrger ~ "sacrifices mimetic _________ ... ________ goals"

Answer 32

fidelity didactic

Question 33

[Critical Comment] bell hooks ~ "mere ____________ treatise on ______ life or a radical ___________ text"

Answer 33

sociological black feminist

Question 34

[Critical Comment] Kaufmann ~ "in keeping with its ________________ _________"

Answer 34

womanist agenda

Question 35

What does Walker say about Womanism?

Answer 35

Womanism is to feminism as purple is to lavender

Question 36

Who does womanism focus on?

Answer 36

Black experiences of men and women

Question 37

Who was Walker's literary inspiration?

Answer 37

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 38

What did Zora Neale Hurston study?

Answer 38

Religions of African diaspora Black folklore

Question 39

What role of slaves is significant to Celie?

Answer 39

Cotton pickers

Question 40

What percentage of black farmers were sharecroppers in the 1900s?

Answer 40

50%

Question 41

What industry did the Republican's promote when they came to power in 1868 Georgia?

Answer 41

Textiles

Question 42

What is intersectionality?

Answer 42

All oppression is linked

Question 43

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 43

Revival of African-American arts and culture

Question 44

Why were police so brutal to black people?

Answer 44

Protection of whiteness

Question 45

What did police refer to black women as?

Answer 45

Colored Amazons

Question 46

What happened to black female inmates?

Answer 46

Food and sleep deprived

Question 47

What does Alice Walker think of God?

Answer 47

All present and All magical

Question 48

What is Walker's belief?

Answer 48

Pantheism

Question 49

What were Walker's parents?

Answer 49

Sharecroppers

Question 50

What is Walker's sexuality?

Answer 50

Bisexual