JEOPARDY!
CRY, THE BELOVED
COUNTRY
BOOK II
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
CHARACTERS
EVENTS
QUOTES
PLACES
POTPOURRI
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Characters - 200
Arthur Jarvis greatly admired
this U.S. president.
Characters - 200
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Characters - 400
This character (Arthur’s brotherin-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!