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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?
(a) A friend.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

2. In what magazine does Claudia imagine the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken reading in Part III?
(a) The Equality Magazine.
(b) The Freedom Magazine.
(c) The Liberty Magazine.
(d) The Justice Magazine.

3. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Adoring them.
(b) Playing dress-up with them.
(c) Dismembering them.
(d) Playing house with them.

4. The narrator in Part II describes the adults as treating illness in children with what?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Sympathy.
(d) Contempt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?

2. What nickname do Claudia and Frieda call Maureen Peal in Part III?

3. What were the names of Pauline Williams’s parents?

4. What did Frieda’s father throw at Mr. Henry, knocking him off the porch, in Part IV?

5. What does Frieda say her mother hit Mr. Henry with in Part IV?

(see the answer key)

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