The Secret Life of Bees Chapter One

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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


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