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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III that they go to what kind of colleges?
(a) Ivy League colleges.
(b) Land-grant colleges.
(c) Ivory League colleges.
(d) Community colleges.

2. The author states in the book’s Foreword that in constructing the narrative she did not want to do what to "the characters who trashed Pecola and contributed to her collapse"?
(a) Make them seem human.
(b) Dehumanize them.
(c) Justify their actions.
(d) Make them into martyrs.

3. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?
(a) Blue.
(b) Brown.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

4. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?
(a) Yacobowski.
(b) Washington.
(c) Whitcomb.
(d) Dunion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?

2. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

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

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

5. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

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