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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?
(a) Frieda MacTeer.
(b) Pecola Breedlove.
(c) Rosemary Villanucci.
(d) Maureen Peal.

2. What lake is near where Claudia and Frieda live in the novel?
(a) Lake Michigan.
(b) Lake Superior.
(c) Lake Huron.
(d) Lake Erie.

3. What is Maureen Peal said to have “even bought and liked” in Part III?
(a) White flour.
(b) White bread.
(c) White rice.
(d) White milk.

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?
(a) “The weary master.”
(b) “The elderly.”
(c) “The proud parents.”
(d) “Newborn babies.”

5. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?
(a) She cries.
(b) She screams.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She runs off.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?

2. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?

3. How does the narrator define “colored people” in Part III?

4. Who is described as a “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” during Aunt Jimmy’s illness in Part IV?

5. Frieda slams her books on whose head when she and Claudia encounter schoolboys taunting Pecola in Part III?

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