The Secret Life of Bees Chapter One
What summer does Lily turn 14?
1964
What was the population of the town they lived in?
3,100
How old was Lily when her mom died?
4
How many siblings does Rosaleen have?
6
What did Rosaleen not possess?
A birth certificate
What animal did Lily tend to write about?
A horse
What are Martha Whites?
A method of punishment T. Ray dreamed up
What was in the paper bag that Lily found in the attic?
A photograph of her mother, white gloves, picture of Mary
What did the giant peach look like to them?
A rear end
What did Lily ask for for her birthday?
A silver charm bracelet
What was Rosaleen getting arrested for?
Assault, theft, and disturbing the police
According to Rosaleen, when do the bees swarm?
Before death
Describe the physical features of Rosaleen.
Big round face, body that sloped from her neck, black
What is Lily's new method of showing T. Ray the bees?
Catching them in a jar
What did Lily's mother smell like?
Cinnamon
What was Lily's mother's name?
Deborah
What day did her mother die?
December 3, 1954
What was Lily always choosing between?
Decent hair and a good nights sleep
Why did Rosaleen throw her husband out?
For carousing
Rosaleen was holding a picture in the Church. Who was in the picture?
Her mom
What did Rosaleen pour onto the men's shoes?
Her spit
Who smelled just like her mother?
Her teacher, who said I️t was Ponds Cold Cream
When is Lily's birthday?
July 4
Who is Rosaleen?
Lily's nanny
What does Lily imagine when she hears the bees?
Making honeycombs
What did T Ray do to Lily after she escaped?
Martha Whites
Where was Rosaleen raised?
McClellanville, South Carolina
What did T Ray refer to Lily as?
Miss Brown-Nose-in-a-book
Who was the only person that called Lily pretty?
Miss Jennings
Where does Lily live
Outside Sylvan, South Carolina
What is Lily's last name?
Owens
What sums up the town they lived in?
Peach stands and Baptist churches
Who is Lily's stand-in mother?
Rosaleen
What was Lily's summer job?
Selling peaches
Why did Lily get shut out at the Women's Club?
She didnt have a mother, a grandmother, or an aunt to be with her at the closing ceremony
What was Rosaleen going to do in town?
She was registering herself to vote
How did Lily's mother die?
She was shot by Lily
What would Lily's mother say to her for the first ten thousand years?
She wasn't to blame
What was Rosaleen's job before becoming a nanny?
She worked in the peach orchards as one of T. Ray's pickers
What would Lily's mother do to Lily for the next set of ten thousand years?
She would fix her hair
Who is the bird dog?
Snout
When do the bees come?
Summer of 1964
Who is Lilly's dad's real name?
T. Ray because Daddy never fit him
What did everyone at school call the giant peach perched atop a pole?
The Great Fanny
What is the only memory Lily has of her mother?
The day she died
What would Lily tell her mother about for four or five centuries?
The misery of living with T. Ray
What happened on July 2, 1964?
The president signed the Civil Rights Act
What happened on their way to town?
They came across a group of white people playing a card game and they made fun of Rosaleen, turned into a fight
What was written on the back of the picture of Mary?
Tiburon, SC
What did Rosaleen take from the Church?
Two fans
Where was her mother buried?
Virginia
When did Lily know that Rosaleen loved and cared for her?
When she brought a baby chick home and T. Ray threatened to cook I️t, she said that he is not going to be touching that chick
What did Rosaleen's mother do for a living?
Woven sweet-grass baskets and sold them on the roadside
