Sue Monk Kidd Trivia

1. What is Lily's middle name?

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: Melissa

Melissa is a perfect middle name for this book since it means "honey bee" in Greek.

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: Her mother chopped off her finger

Jessie received a call from her mother's best friend early in the morning telling her that her mother had severed her right index finger with a meat cleaver.

From Quiz The Mermaid Chair

Answer: Middle of her marriage

Jessie Sulllivan was the wife of a psychiatrist named Hugh and the mother of a college bound daughter named Dee. She described herself as being in her forties and aging worse than her husband.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: Lincoln and Taylor

Zach's full name is Zachary Lincoln Taylor.

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: Psychiatrist

He was a psychiatrist, and was always trying to analyze Jessie's actions.

From Quiz The Mermaid Chair

Answer: Jessie's mother cut her finger off

On the morning of February 17, 1988, Jessie and her husband were awakened by a phone call. Jessie's godmother, Kat, had called Jessie to tell her that Jessie's mother had cut off her finger with a meat cleaver while fixing lunch at the monastery which was next door to their family home.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: His dogtag

This is considered between them a promise that they will be with each other in the future. For now, their relationship is very risky. Zach also gives Lily a notebook.

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: Benny

Her daughter's name was Benny and she was "not quite right", as Jessie said. She was a year older than Jessie and claimed she knew what a certain dog, Max, thought.

From Quiz The Secret Life of Bees

Answer: Charm bracelet

She was the only girl in school without one. Lily suffered greatly from the lack of trendy clothes as many of her school mates mocked her.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: Kneeling on grits

Lily dreads this; we see the punishment being done when T. Ray thinks that Lily is out with a boy. Lily isn't really but laughs at the fact that he thinks she is. Lily is really unpopular.

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: She found his pipe

She was searching through her mother's drawer and found her father's pipe and the newspaper clipping about his death, which she had already seen before but re-read. That led to a conversation with her mother when her mother told her what really happened to her dad.

From Quiz The Secret Life of Bees

Answer: Two paper fans

Rosaleen was determined to register to vote, Lily accompanied her to town. It was a humid day so they rested in the church, Rosaleen took the fans to help keep cool.

From Quiz The Mermaid Chair

Answer: Max

One night while toweling off her godmother's wet dog named Max, Jessie told the dog that she was in love with Whit. Nelle is Jessie's mother and Benne is Kat's mentally disabled daughter.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: May

May is really sensitive to everyone else's pain. She is really sensitive since her twin, April, killed herself many years before the sisters meet Lily.

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: Brother Thomas

Whit was a monk and was called Brother Thomas. Jessie called him this up until she realized they were in love.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: Neil

June and Neil have been dating for a while but she refuses to get engaged due to being left at the altar by a previous man. May's suicide spearheads her decision, much to August's relief!

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: She was married and he was a monk

She was married to Hugh and Whit was a monk. They both had problems dealing with these obstacles.

From Quiz The Secret Life of Bees

Answer: Boatwrights

There were three sisters all called after calender months: August, May and June. A fourth sister called April had died.

From Quiz The Mermaid Chair

Answer: Dominic

Ever since Jessie was a little girl, Father Dominic had told her knock-knock jokes. Jessie thought he was funny as a little girl, but when she returned to the island she didn't find his jokes or him very amusing.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: Reading

Lily thinks this is ridiculous because she will be bored out of her mind if she doesn't read. This is one of the reasons that Lily wants to escape from her dad.

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: On a secluded part of the beach

They made love on the beach and it was very romantic. They ended up meeting there quite a few more times.

From Quiz The Secret Life of Bees

Answer: Shot

She died when Lily was four. All Lily had to remember her were a pair of gloves, a tattered photo and a black cross. The letters Tiburon were written on the back of the cross. Tiburon was also the home place of the Boatwrights, so Lily hoped to find out more about her mother from them.

From Quiz The Mermaid Chair

Answer: Poison

Jessie's father, Joe, had a degenerative brain disease called Pick's disease. When Joe realized he had the disease, his wife and friends helped him die. They gave him a poison called dead finger and then took his body out on a boat and caused the boat to explode. Joe had his death made to look like an accident so Jessie wouldn't have to live with his suicide.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: T. Ray

Lily doesn't think of T. Ray as a "daddy". So, she calls him by his first name.

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: Jessie's paintings

They got into a big argument afterwards and Jessie cried and pleaded at the door but Hugh didn't answer.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: Deborah

T. Ray is very frustrated that Lily has left him. In his rage, he thinks his daughter is his wife leaving him again. He finally snaps out of calling Lily "Deborah" when she finally calls him "Daddy".

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: Dee

Her daughter's name was Dee, who was in her first year of college.

From Quiz Inside "The Secret Life of Bees"

Answer: Lily

T. Ray has been telling Lily that she killed her mom but Lily doesn't believe him due to her blurred memory of the event. At the very end, it turns out that T. Ray was being serious about it and not lying to cover his own hind end.

From Quiz "The Mermaid Chair" (The book)

Answer: Hugh

She got back with Hugh because she knew it wouldn't work with Whit and she still loved her husband. They made it work by changing what was wrong with their marriage and knew they would make it.

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