"I gotta stand tall. I have a right to vote, a right, I tell you. And a responsibility."
Question 2
2.
Which character said the following quote:
"I can never get the words to sound like I want them to."
Question 3
3.
Which character said the following quote:
"It's incomplete. It's got potential but you gave up. Perhaps I should stop by your house with a plate of gingersnaps and have a chat with your mama."
Question 4
4.
Which character said the following quote:
"They got better sense than to get bit by a snake. Only stupid people let snakes bite them."
Question 5
5.
Which character said the following quote:
"Gertrude is right...You are an amazing thinker -- a gemstone hiding inside a rock."
Question 6
6.
Which character said the following quote:
"But I wanted to get sick with something really bad so he'd pay attention to me for a change!"
Question 7
7.
Which character said the following quote:
"Yes, this little girl represents all of us. She is youth. She is promise. She is the reason we get up each morning and go to jobs where we are underpaid or mistreated, to work in fields that are dry and parched and reuse to yield. She stands there for all our children."
Question 8
8.
Which character said the following quote:
"It's honest-to-goodness cinder, you know? It's so much better than running on our lumpy dirt road. On that white school track, I feel like an eagle or something."
Question 9
9.
Which character said the following quote:
"Yours is the first house in Bumblebee that I have the honor to stop at. I brung you some fabric, a bit of thread, a new set of spoons, and a full set of fixin' tools for your husband."
Question 10
10.
Which character said the following quote:
"Tony's inside wounds are the ones that will be harder to heal." "
Question 11
11.
Sequence the following events from the book in chronological order (what happened first to last).
Stella goes with Papa, Mr. Spencer & Pastor Patton as they register to vote.
The Spencer house is burned down.
Spoonman comes to town.
Two white women come to Stella's house with donations.
The KKK is seen burning a cross by the pond.
Mama gets bit by a snake.
Question 12
12.
What genre would Stella by Starlight fall under?
Question 13
13.
What was the setting (time & place) of the story?
Question 14
14.
What did Stella sneak outside at night to do?
Question 15
15.
Why did Stella's dad want her to come with him to register to vote?
Question 16
16.
Which white people treated the black community kindly?
Mrs. Cooper
Dr. Packard
Paulette Packard
Maxwell Smitherman
Johnny Ray Johnson
Mr. O'Brien (general store owner)
Treated Black Community Kindly
Did NOT Treat Black Community Kindly
Question 17
17.
Choose one character above and give an example of how they treated the black community kindly OR unkindly.
Question 18
18.
What is one lesson Stella learns throughout the novel? Explain how she learns this.