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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?
(a) The cat.
(b) The goldfish.
(c) The hampster.
(d) The dog.

2. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?
(a) Fred Astaire.
(b) Chuck E. White.
(c) Bojangles.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

3. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?
(a) “A stomach.”
(b) “A brain.”
(c) “Arms.”
(d) “Legs.”

4. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?
(a) “Guilty.”
(b) “Informed.”
(c) “Moved.”
(d) “Enlightened.”

5. What does Pecola’s mother demand that Pecola’s father get out of bed and go get for her in their argument in Part II?
(a) Flour.
(b) Coal.
(c) Milk.
(d) Eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?

2. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?

3. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?

4. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?

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

(see the answer key)

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