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What church did mama and Dennis open
New brown memorial Baptist
New Brown Memorial Church
Mama and Dennis opened this and named it after friend who died
Where does mama cry
Church
What is the color of water
god
Who is james' godfather
Deacon McNair
Ruth's sister
DeeDee
Where did Ruth originally live
Suffolk Virginia
What does Ruth hate
Death and guns
Who did tateh hate
Black people
How much older is sam
2 years older than Ruth
When and where did Sam do
Went to Chicago in 1934 when he was 15
How did Sam die?
in a plane crash in Alaska; was in the Air Force during world war II
How many kids did Ruth have
12
What number kid was James
8
Where did Ruth and her kids live
Redhook then queens
Was Ruth good at cooking and housekeeping
Nooo
Who was Ruth's hero
Jfk
Did the fam tell lies
No. Just stories (Ruth's way of saying lies)
Who was the Golden child
Dennis
Dennis Mcbride jr
Golden child
Oldest
Artist
Med school
Helen McBride
Second oldest sister
Artistic
Quit hs to become a hippie and ran away
Rosetta McBride
Oldest sister
Smartest
Queen of house
why did Helen quit school
white mans education was not for her
Why did Helen run away?
She had a fight with Rosetta when she was 15
Where did Helen go
To stay with Jack in Harlem
Judy Jordan
Sister of James
Second Jordan kid
How many sisters did James have
5
What is Mama's name?
Ruth Jordan
Shul
Yiddish term school but it was basically a synagogue
What did Tateh expect Sam to do
to work like a man (as a child) and run the shop with him
What did Tateh say to Ruth as she was leaving back for New York?
he knew she was going to marry a black man and to never come back if she did
What was tatehs unofficial Suffolk job
Circumcise kids and kill cows
What school did Ruth go to
Thomas Jefferson elementary
Ruth's real name
Ruchel zylska, then Rachel shilsky, then Ruth Mcbride Jordan
Gentile
A non-Jewish person
Ruth's best friend
Frances a brunette gentile girl
What did turn left Ruth starve for
Not food, but love and affection
Where did Ruth send her kids
Jewish puncli schools
What happened to James in school
Kids were racists
What did James pretend
That his reflection in the mirror was a different person
Tragic Mulatto
Refers to how biracial characters have been depicted in literature; the idea that a biracial person is sad or suicidal for their inability to fit in to any of the communities to which s/he presumably belongs.
Ruth was sad when James asked abiut this
What happened when Helen returned
She came back 5 years later with a daughter
What happened to Richie
He got married at 18 then divorced
Cops found him with 90 dollars for college and thought it was for drugs so he was arrested and plead guilty because his lawyer told him to. Charges were dropped.
Ruth and milk man
James was sold spoiled milk and when the guy wouldn't get him a new one Ruth fought him and threw milk in his face
Who did James dance as for his white classmates
James brown
Reverend shilsky
Tateh
Ruth's first boyfriend
Peter
Black
Ruth first pregnancy
Pregnant at 15 by Peter
Only person who knew was mameh because mameh found her bracelet in the alley
Went to NY to have an abortion
James birth father
Andrew Mcbride
Died before James was born
Hunter Jordan
Ruth's second husband and James's primary male role model.
mechanic for the New York City Housing Authority.
He met Ruth shortly after her first husband's death, married her, and had four children with her. Like Dennis, he was rather conservative. He shared Ruth's notions of the importance of God, family, and education.
He died of a stroke when James was a teenager, and his entire family recalls him with fondness.
Did jail time for seeking booze
How did hunter die
Stroke
How did Andre Mcbride die
Cancer
What did hunter buy the fam
Pink house in st albans queens
He stayed jn for Greene Brooklyn
Henry Jordan
Hunters brother who got too drunk while driving James and Judy
What happened to hunters Brooklyn house
Was gonna be turned into low income housing but that never happened
Where was hunter from
Richmond
Who was the oldest when hunter died
James
Hunters favorite
Kathy
Author of The Color of Water
James McBride
what did Mameh suffer from?
polio
What did Mameh place in the brown lunch bag she gave to Ruth before Ruth got on the bus?
her Polish passport; it is a picture of Mameh with Sam and Ruth on her lap; Mameh knew she was dying when she did this and it is the only picture Ruth has of Mameh
Mameh's sisters
Oldest was Laura in Manhattan
Mary on the Bronx who ran a factory
Mamehs parents
Bubeh and zaydeh
Zaydeh
died when Ruth was little, she thought he was just sleeping, now claustrophobic, and tells her children to really make sure she is dead and flick her
Mameh and tateh real names
Hudis and fishel shilsky
Bubeh
Ruth's maternal grandmother, she is one of her few family members Ruth recalls fondly. Bubeh allowed Ruth to stay with her in New York. While Bubeh tried to shape Ruth's behavior in some ways, she also gave Ruth some space, and seemed to accept her.
From Brooklyn
Diabetic
Aunt Betsey
Youngest aunt cared for bubeh took Ruth to get her painful abortion
What did Ruth lose after hunter died
Her fire
James after hunter died
Got bad grades and dropped out of 10th grade
Stole a purse and sold weed
Got fake report cards but Kathy gave him c grades so Ruth called the school found out the truth and sent him to be with Jack
Where did jack live
Louisville, Kentucky
Jack's husband
Big Richard
The corner
The bar James would go to in Kentucky
Chicken man
Part of the crew on "the corner." Chicken Man is endearing and intelligent, but he has done little with his life, wasting money and time on the corner drinking.
Small and smart
Where did James get a job
Gas station
Who owned the gas station
Herman big and mean and Ford James
Mustang
Chicken man's gf
Not official
Chicken man death
Stabbed in an argument about a woman
Why did Ruth go back to Virginia?
She wasn't doing well in nyc school
When Ruth came back to Suffolk
Peter knocked up a black girl and is getting married
Ruth's graduation
Protestant church
She wanted to go in the church cause Frances wanted her to but couldn't cause in her heart she knew she was a jew
Went to NYC next day
Ruth drives
Hunters car with James and z, Helen's daughter. Z almost smashed head in windshield
Ruth bff
Irene Johnson
Died a year after hunter
Who could/ couldn't drive
Rachel shilsky could
Ruth Mcbride Jordan couldn't
Where did Ruth work
Aunt marys factory
How did Ruth meet dennis
He worked for aunt Mary and he was aunt marys favorite worker
What happened after Ruth quit the factory
She worked as a hair person but was fired cause she didn't know how to do black people's hair
Ruth job after hairdresser
Manicurist at barber shop
Rocky
Ruth's boss
Rented her a room
How did Dennis feel about Ruths job
Not angry, disappointed
So she went back to bubeh
Where did the fam move after hunter died
Wilmington dele ware
Who didn't want to move
He girls of the fam
What did deleware not have
Subway
People took the bus
David McBride
Older brother
Did an illegal u turn and was questioned
Did the fam stay in deleware
They went back to NYC but didn't have enough money so went to deleware again
James gave up drugs for
Band
The Dawsons
David and Ann gave scholarships to needy musicians if you worked on their estate on weekends
Was James good at his job
Nooo
He got fired cause he slept on the job in a field but Ann still sent him to Europe. They kept in touch
What happened on the bus in deleware
Thanksgiving turkey fell out
Who went to Oberlin College in OH and encouraged James to apply?
James's sister-in-law, Becky, Dennis's wife; she said James should apply because it had a great liberal arts school, a conservatory of music, and scholarship money. James was accepted.
Ruth tried to hide it but she cried when he left
Dennis occupation
Violinist from North Carolina
