Jazz

by Toni Morrison

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Chapter 1

Questions

1. Why does Joe shoot and kill Dorcas?
2. What's Violet's reaction to dead Dorcas?
3. In what city is our story set?
4. What's Violet's job description?
5. What's wrong with Violet? How do you know?

Answers

1. He kills her in order to keep the love going.
2. She tries cutting the girl's face.
3. The story is set in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem.
4. She's a hairdresser.
5. She's crazy. She's obsessed with dead Dorcas and she considers stealing another woman's baby.