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 * The Color Purple Reading Response Questions**

Name: ....................................................... Period: .......... Date: .........................


 * Letters 1-10**

1. How old is Celie at the beginning of the story?

2. Why does Celie begin writing letters to God?

3. How does Celie respond when her mother, who is dying, asks Celie who the father of her children is?

4. What does Celie do when she notices that her stepfather is beginning to take an interest in her younger sister Nettie?

5. Why does Mr. ................................. __need a wife?__

__6. Who does Mr.....................................__ want to marry? Who does he marry and why?

7. Whose photograph captivates the young Celie?

8. Describe Celie’s reception at her new home.

9. Celie sees her daughter in town with a well-dressed woman. How does Celie know that the little girl is in fact her own daughter?

10. How does the white clerk in the store treat Celie? How does he treat the well-dressed woman who is with Celie’s daughter?

11. What does this same well-dressed woman say about Celie’s husband?

12. What negative things does Alphonso say about Celie?