Colour Blind Trivia Quiz

Answer: McQueen

The book begins as the McQueen family learn that Bridget is coming home a married woman. But when she arrives on the doorstep they are horrified to find that her husband, James Patterson, is a black man. It makes no difference that he is educated and has a good job as a sailor - Bridget has overstepped the acceptable boundaries.

Answer: she wanted to have the baby killed at birth

James had gone back to sea, and Bridget arranged for the doctor to see to her confinement. Her mother tried to get the 'fixer', Nellie Milligan, to arrange to have the child stillborn. It was the doctor who scuppered their plans and the baby was born safely.

Answer: Matt

Matt was pathologically devoted to Bridget, to the extent that he wanted no one to have any hold on her at all. That included James - and would have included any man in her life, whatever his colour - and her daughter Rose Angela.

Answer: Tony

Matt had taunted James into fighting, and after James had knocked him senseless, he snatched the baby and was prepared to take her from the country. Tony found them and persuaded James to give Rose Angela to him to return her to her mother, and advised him to leave the town before the crowd found him and lynched him for hurting one of their own.

Answer: that she wouldn't go to heaven because she wasn't white

When James and Bridget arrived in the Fifteen Streets, the priest insisted on a church wedding, which they accepted. James had not actually murdered Matt, just seriously hurt him in the short term. There were two priests in their church, and as Rose Angela was praying desperately in the church after Janie's taunts, the nicer of the two, Father Bailey, assured her that God was colour blind and took no notice of skin tone at all.

Answer: three pence

Craven had gone to the auction of Peggy's belongings because he 'had nowt better to do' and 'for a lark' he said three pence for the lot, and got them for that price. This was to start him on a love of reading and knowledge which was to remain for the rest of his life.

Answer: Cassy's Wharf

When Mrs Grant hurt her leg Rose Angela was able to get her job on a temporary basis. Michael Stanhope was a painter who only painted men and boats, and had little idea of how Mrs Grant had been cheating him. When Rose Angela took over he realised how much more pleasant life was with a housekeeper who did an honest day's work, and retained Rose Angela in the position.

This was to anger the friends and family of the Grants who spread the rumour that Rose Angela was providing more service than that of just a housekeeper.

Answer: James

James had been a prize fighter in the intervening years, and returned to live within a few miles of his wife and daughter. On learning Rose Angela's name, Pete had made the connection between the two and persuaded James to come to Michael to be painted. Not letting on to Michael that they knew each other, this was to be the means of father and daughter becoming reunited.

Answer: Holborn

Rose Angela was living with her father because she recognised the signs of consumption upon him, and wanted to help him as much as she could. The only other people who knew this were Murphy, Pete, and Hassan, an Arab friend.

Answer: Michael

There came a big showdown between the men in Rose Angela's life when Matt comes to find James, having worked out that his niece was innocent of duplicity and concluding that her father had returned. Bridget was to see James before he died and then go on to marry Tony.