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What did the narrator teach?

Algebra

What two darknesses did boys growing up in Harlem have?

Darkness of their lives and the darkness of the movies

Who was the narrator's brother?

Sonny

Why did the boy from the school courtyard believe that Sonny's trouble was his fault?

He told Sonny that "it" felt good

What did the narrator give the boy at the subway?

$5

When did the narrator finally write Sonny?

After his daughter, Gracie, died

When Sonny wrote his brother, what did he want him to do for him

Meet him when he returned to New York

Name the narrator's wife?

Isabel

What was the difference in ages between the two brothers?

Seven years

Where did Sonny want to go when he was fourteen?

India

In what way were Sonny and his father alike?

They were both private

When the narrator remembers his mother, what day is it and what color is she wearing?

Sunday afternoon/pale blue

Who did "mama" talk about the last time the narrator talked to her

His father's brother

What happened to Father's brother?

He was run over by a car full of drunk white men

What was the brother carrying on his back?

A guitar

What did the father think every time he saw a white man?

That he might have been the man that killed his brother

What did Mama want the narrator to do for Sonny?

Let him know he was there; hold on to him and not let him fall

What did Sonny want to do for a living?

To be a jazz musician

What instrument did Sonny FIRST play; what did he want to play?

Drums/piano

What jazz musician did Sonny admire?

"Bird" nickname for Charlie Parker

The narrator put jazz musicians in the a class that his Daddy had called what

"good-time people"

Where did the narrator want Sonny to live after his mother's death?

With Isabel and her parents

What did Sonny want to do instead of staying in Harlem and finishing school?

Join the army or navy

What did they have at Isabel's house that made Sonny say he would try to stay with them for a year?

A piano

How did Isabel's parents find out that Sonny wasn't going to school?

A letter from the school board

Where had Sonny been going instead of school?

Greenwich Village with musicians in a white girl's apartment

How did Isabel know that Sonny was gone for good from her home?

All his records were gone

Where did Sonny go after leaving Isabel's parents home?

Joined the navy (Greece)

What happened to the relationship between the two brothers when they returned from the war?

They fought

What did the narrator do to keep from crying when Sonny shut the door on him?

Whistled (You going to need me, baby, one of these cold, rainy days)

What did the two-year-old narrator's daughter die of?

Polio

On a Saturday afternoon after Sonny had been back two weeks, what did the narrator watch from his window by the barbecue joint?

A revival meeting

The three sisters and brother were dressed in black and playing what instrument?

A tambourine

What did Sonny say the "singing" sister reminded him of and why?

What heroin feels like in your veins/warm, cool, distant and in control

What did Sonny believe could come again?

Drug addiction

What enormous black man with a big voice met the brothers at the nightclub?

Creole

How many were in Sonny's music group?

4

The narrator discovered that a musician must fill an instrument with what?

The breath of his own life

The narrator learned that Sonny could help us to be free if we listened and that Sonny would never be free until what?

We listened

What did the narrator send up to the Blues Group?

A round of drinks

What did Sonny drink?

Scotch and milk