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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Pecola say the prostitute Poland is going to take her to see the Loop in Part IV?
(a) Meridian.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Elyria.

2. What does the narrator claim Pecola soaked up from the world in Part V?
(a) Its ugliness.
(b) Its beauty.
(c) Its humanity.
(d) Its hatred.

3. Frieda and Claudia discover the Pecola has become impregnated by whom in Part V?
(a) Mr. Henry.
(b) Bay Boy.
(c) Cholly Breedlove.
(d) J.L.

4. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?
(a) “The couch.”
(b) “The kitchen sink.”
(c) “The coal stove.”
(d) “The bed.”

5. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?
(a) Punctuation.
(b) Consonants.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Vowels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?

2. The narrator states in Part V, “Love is never any better than the” what?

3. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?

4. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?

5. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III, “They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex” what?

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