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Good Earth Quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| It was Wang Lung's ___________ day. | marriage |
| "And what will we do with a _________ woman? We must have a woman who will tend the house and bear children as she works in the fields, and will a __________ woman do these things?" | pretty |
| Together this man and this woman stood before the ________ of their fields. | gods |
| Then in her usual plain way she said, straight out, her voice flat and more than usually plain in the silent evening air, "I am __________." | with child |
| "When I return to that house it will be with my __________ in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front and on his feet tiger-faced shoes." | son |
| It had come out of the __________, this silver, out of his ________ that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from this __________; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. | earth |
| "It is over once more. It is only a _______ this time--not worth mentioning." | slave |
| Across the pale, oyster-colored sky of twilight a flock of _________ flew, sharply black, and whirred over him, cawing loudly. | crows |
| It seemed as though once the _______ turn against a man they will not consider him again. | gods |
| Neither had Heaven sent rain upon the fields of the _________, and there, too, there were no harvests, and so when Wang Lung came to the agent crying, "I have silver," it was as though one came saying to the hungry, "I have food." | House of Hwang |
| Who said it? "Why are you wasteful? Tea is like eating silver." | Wang Lung's father |
| Who said it? "I will hand you the bowls if you will place them upon the table. I do not like to come out before men." | O-lan |
| Who said it? "I took no tea to the Old One--I did as you said--but to you..." | O-lan |
| Who said it? "We shall have to buy a good basketful of eggs and dye them all red for the village. Thus will everyone know I have a son!" | Wang Lung |
| Who said it? "We will buy the land!" | Wang Lung |
| Who said it? "Ah, it is something you do not know--to have an evil destiny! Where the fields of others bear good rice and wheat, ours bear weeds; where others bear men, I, although I conceive a son, will yet give birth to a girl--ah, evil destiny!" | Wang Lung's Aunt |
| Who said it? "You are rich--you are rich! You have bought the land from the great house at the gods know what heavy price--is there another in the village who could do this thing?" | Wang Lung's Uncle |
| Who said it? "It is not yet time to take our table and the benches and the bed from our house. You have all our food. But out of your own houses you have not sold yet your table and your benches. Leave us ours. We are even." | O-lan |
| Sometimes, looking at her, he whispered softly, "Poor _____--poor little _____..." | fool |
| Who said it? "Come, woman, we will go south!" | Wang Lung |
| "They cannot take the ________ from me. The labor of my body and the fruit of the fields have put into that which cannot be taken away." | land |
Created by:
Mr. Taylor
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