103 pages • 3 hours read
Alicia D. WilliamsGenesis Begins Again
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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Multiple Choice
1. In Chapter 2, Genesis watches Dr. Oz on TV with her grandma and asks her grandma if she puts anything else on her skin’s dark spots to lighten them aside from lemon juice. How does her grandma respond?
A) She admonishes Genesis for asking her invasive questions.
B) She says she also exfoliates.
C) She tells Genesis that she is too young to be worried about age spots.
D) She says she also uses bleach.
2. When Mama and Genesis move into their “dream home” after being evicted in Chapter 3, why are they hesitant to unpack?
A) Emory told them to wait until he was back from the pizza place, because he wanted to help them unpack.
B) Mama thinks it is bad luck to unpack before they have been able to “cleanse” the new space with sage.
C) As they brought their suitcases into the home their white neighbors shouted insulting remarks at them.
D) They fear that the situation is too good to be true and that Emory is going to let them down again.
3. In Chapter 5, when Genesis first arrives at her new middle school, she only encounters one Black adult in the entire school.
