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The Color Purple
by
Alice Walker
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Summary
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Letters 1–9 Summary
Letters 10–12 Summary
Letters 13-18 Summary
Letters 19–21 Summary
Letters 22–27 Summary
Letters 28–31 Summary
Letters 32–36 Summary
Letters 37–41 Summary
Letters 42–44 Summary
Letters 45–48 Summary
Letters 49–51 Summary
Letters 52–60 Summary
Letters 61-63 Summary
Letters 64–69 Summary
Letters 70–73 Summary
Letters 74–77 Summary
Letters 78–79 Summary
Letters 80–81 Summary
Letters 82–85 Summary
Letters 86–87 Summary
Letters 88–90 Summary
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Letters 1–9: Questions and Answers
Letters 10–12: Questions and Answers
Letters 13-18: Questions and Answers
Letters 19–21: Questions and Answers
Letters 22–27: Questions and Answers
Letters 28–31: Questions and Answers
Letters 32–36: Questions and Answers
Letters 37-41: Questions and Answers
Letters 42–44: Questions and Answers
Letters 45–48: Questions and Answers
Letters 49–51: Questions and Answers
Letters 52–60: Questions and Answers
Letters 61-63: Questions and Answers
Letters 64–69: Questions and Answers
Letters 70–73: Questions and Answers
Letters 74–77: Questions and Answers
Letters 78–79: Questions and Answers
Letters 80–81: Questions and Answers
Letters 82–85: Questions and Answers
Letters 86–87: Questions and Answers
Letters 88–90: Questions and Answers
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The Color Purple Questions and Answers
Discuss the title of the novel The Color Purple.
What disease does Shug have in The Color Purple?
Discuss race, gender and marginality in Alice Walker's The Color Purple.
Olinka
How is the epistolary form used in The Color Purple by Alice Walker?
What are the differences between the book The Color Purple and the movie?
What is the meaning of calling Albert Mr_______ in The Color Purple by Alice Walker?
Why does Alice Walker put blank lines in the book The Color Purple for Mr. Albert? And why did she name the novel The Color Purple?
How does Sofia get out of jail in The Color Purple?
Why does Celie address her letters to God?
How does Celie describe her daughter in The Color Purple?
Why is Alice Walker's novel entitled The Color Purple, and what does it have to do with beauty?
How did Nettie get to Africa?
Is The Color Purple based on a true story?
Discuss the relationship between Shug and Celie in The Color Purple—stress on the womanist angle.
How long was Sofia in jail?
What is the main message of The Color Purple?
Who is Luscious in The Color Purple?
What is the story of the "roofleaf" and what is the life lesson it teaches in The Color Purple, by Alice Walker?
What are the symbols in The Color Purple?
What is the name of Harpo's new club?
What is the importance of Celie “seeing herself” in the mirror in The Color Purple?
Who is the father of Celie's baby?
Who does Celie marry in The Color Purple?
Where does Celie find the strength to survive the misery that is her life?
Is rebellion a major theme in The Color Purple?
What life lessons does The Color Purple by Alice Walker teach readers?
Analyze The Color Purple as a feminist novel.
Why didn't Albert marry Shug in The Color Purple?
What are the types of conflicts in The Color Purple? Is it man versus man, man versus self, man versus nature?
Why was the book "The Color Purple" banned? What was done to allow the book "The Color Purple" not to be banned?
What is the setting of "The Color Purple"?
What is the role of women in the Olinka village in The Color Purple?
How does Celie demonstrate resilience in The Color Purple?
What genre is the novel The Color Purple?
Analyze The Color Purple as an epistolary novel referencing its salient features.
Why does Nettie move in with Celie in The Color Purple?
What are the internal and social conflicts in The Color Purple?
Why did Celie's mother curse her in The Color Purple?
Why did Celie decide to marry Mr.__ in The Color Purple?
In The Color Purple, compare Celie, Sofia, and Squeak's responses to suppression throughout their lives.
What are some famous quotes from The Color Purple?
What is the tone of The Color Purple?
What are the main types of conflict in The Color Purple?
In The Color Purple, what question from the mayor's wife sparked Sophia's confrontation?
In The Color Purple, what happens to make Sofia have feelings for Harpo once again?
What is the significance of the quilt metaphor in The Color Purple?
Comment on the concept of motherhood in The Color Purple.
How does The Color Purple present the relationship between Western and African cultures in terms of sexism, racism, or colonialism? Why is Walker critical of Western colonialism in this novel?
In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, what is Doris's background?
