1. Where is Pecola’s father when she goes to stay with the MacTeer family in Part II?
(a) In Europe.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) In jail.
(d) In Mexico.

2. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Miss Dunion.
(b) Mr. Yacobowski.
(c) Mr. Buford.
(d) Woodrow Cain.

3. 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?
(a) MacTeer.
(b) Yacobowski.
(c) Villanucci.
(d) Williams.

4. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) A boyfriend.
(b) Food to eat.
(c) A new dress.
(d) Blue eyes.

5. 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) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Chuck E. White.
(c) Fred Astaire.
(d) Bojangles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?

2. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?

3. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?

4. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?

5. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?

(see the answer key)

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