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Song of Solomon �rest of Chapt 3 and all of Ch 4 Quiz Weds

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But riding backward made him uneasy. It was like flying blind, and not knowing where he was going- just where he had been-troubled him. He did not want to see trees that he had passed, or houses and children slipping into the space the automobile had left behind. It was becoming a habit--this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.

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She [Pilate] was all angles, he remembered later, knees, mostly, and elbows. One foot pointed east and one pointed west.

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As a result, for all the years he knew her [Pilate], her stomach was as smooth and sturdy as her back, at no place interrupted by a navel.

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....but it was the first time in his life that he remembered being completely happy. He was with his friend...he was surround by women who seemed to enjoy him and who laughed out loud. And he was in love. No wonder his father was afraid of them.

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What was the common incident from their childhood that both Macon and Pilate (at different times – recounting to Milkman) remembered – what is the implication of that?

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Song of Solomon �Chapter 2 & Chapter 3 (thru page 75)�

Row - Pages

1 31-40

2 41-50

3 51-61 “welcome aboard”

4 61 ”What’s a” -68

5 69-75

You need to find THREE things – and they may be any of these FIVE (but you may NOT repeat the kind of thing that you find)

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  1. A comment about anything that happens on your pages.
  2. A question about something that happens
  3. A link to something else (it must be VERY SPECIFIC) that we’ve studied 1 per ROW
  4. A direct quote that can lead to discussion – either by the narrator or a character
  5. Something that you saw in this particular reading – the goes back to the “Overture” – those first 9pages of Chapter 1 (or to something earlier in the text)

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Song of Solomon page 71 �

“I knew then they’d ganged up on me forever —the both of them—and no matter what I did, they managed to have things their way. They made sure I remembered whose house I was in, where the china came from, how he sent to England for the Waterford bowl, and again for the table they put it on. That table was so big they had to take it apart to get it in the door.”