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JEOPARDY!

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

BOOK II

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

CHARACTERS EVENTS QUOTES PLACES POTPOURRI

200 200 200 200 200

400 400 400 400 400

600 600 600 600 600

800 800 800 800 800

1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

Characters - 200

Arthur Jarvis greatly admired this U.S. president.

Characters - 200

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

Characters - 400

This character (Arthur’s brother-in-law) reveres Arthur for his dedication to social issues.

Characters - 400

Who is John Harrison?

Characters - 600

These three characters are on trial for the murder of Arthur

Jarvis.

Characters - 600

Who are Absalom Kumalo, Matthew Kumalo, and

Johannes Parfuri?

Characters - 800

This character scolds Gertrude for her careless behavior, and scolds Absalom’s girlfriend for

talking idly.

Characters - 800

Who is Mrs. Lithebe?

Characters – 1000

Chapter 28 is almost exclusively about the guilt (or innocence)

of the 3 black natives; it is presented to the reader from this person’s point of view.

Characters – 1000

Who is the judge?

Events - 200

This is where James Jarvis shook the hand of a black man

for the first time.

Events - 200

What is the funeral for his son, Arthur?

Events - 400

Gertrude tells Mrs. Lithebe that she wants to become this.

Events - 400

What is a nun?

Events - 600

This weather condition afflicts the farming in and around

Ndotsheni.

Events - 600

What is a drought?

Events - 800

This is the reason that Absalom gives for carrying a revolver

during the break-in.

Events - 800

What is because he was frightened?

Events - 1000

After the verdict has been read, the young white man breaks

this custom which is “not lightly done.”

Events - 1000

What is help Stephen Kumalo out of the courtroom? (What is “break the racial line” coming

out of the courtroom?)

Quotes - 200

“I have only this to say, that I killed this man, but I did not

mean to kill him.”

Quotes - 200

Who is Absalom Kumalo?

Quotes - 400

“This thing that is the heaviest thing of all my years, is the

heaviest thing of all your years also.”

Quotes - 400

Who is Stephen Kumalo?

Quotes - 600

“Therefore, I shall try to do what is right, and to speak what is

true.”

Quotes - 600

Who is Arthur Jarvis?

Quotes - 800

“Let us sell our labor for what it is worth. And if an industry

cannot buy our labor, let that industry die. But let us not sell

our labor cheap to keep any industry alive.”

Quotes - 800

Who is John Kumalo?

Quotes - 1000

"The truth is that our society is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of high assurance and desperate

anxiety, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possession.

Allow me a minute. . ."

Quotes - 1000

Who is Arthur Jarvis?

Places - 200

This is the name of Arthur Jarvis’s farm.

Places - 200

What is High Place?

Places - 400

In one of his essays, Arthur Jarvis writes that his parents

taught him to be honorable, but taught him nothing about this.

Places - 400

What is the country of South Africa? (What is the racial injustice of South Africa?)

DAILY DOUBLE!

Places - 600

The house of this favorite niece of Margaret Jarvis is where

Stephen Kumalo unexpectedly meets James Jarvis.

Places - 600

Who is Barbara Smith?

Places - 800

Msimangu decides to retire here at the end of Book II.

Places - 800

What is a monastery?

Places - 1000

This is the region where gold is discovered.

Places - 1000

What is the Orange Free State? (Or, what is Odendaalsrust?)

Potpourri - 200

Stephen Kumalo promises to try to find the daughter of this

man.

Potpourri - 200

Who is Sibeko?

Potpourri - 400

This is what Mr. Harrison advocates to solve the “native

problem.”

Potpourri - 400

What is stricter laws, more police/more control?

Potpourri - 600

This word, which means “allowable,” is repeated

throughout Arthur Jarvis’s unfinished manuscript on the

history of South Africa’s society.

Potpourri - 600

What is “permissible”?

DAILY DOUBLE!

Potpourri - 800

These are two instances when someone gives money to

another person near the end of Book II.

Potpourri - 800

What is when Msimangu gives Stephen his life savings (more

than 33 pounds), and when James Jarvis gives 1000

pounds to John Harrison for the social club?

Potpourri - 1000

Stephen Kumalo remembers this character as “having a

brightness in him.”

Potpourri - 1000

Who is Arthur Jarvis?

TRIPLE JEOPARDY!