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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?
(a) Alice Faye.
(b) June Harver.
(c) Ethel Merman.
(d) Betty Grable.

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

3. How does Pecola’s mother describe Pecola when she was born in Part IV?
(a) Chubby.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Cranky.
(d) Ugly.

4. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?
(a) “My money.”
(b) “My advice.”
(c) “My help.”
(d) “Me to die.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?

2. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?

3. What is Maureen Peal said to have “even bought and liked” in Part III?

4. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?

5. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?

(see the answer key)

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