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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. MacTeer say “ate up” the prostitutes named China and Poland in Part IV?
(a) Overeating.
(b) Quitting school.
(c) Drinking whiskey.
(d) Going to church.

2. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “learn how to do the white man's work with” what, in Part III?
(a) “Pleasure.”
(b) “Integrity.”
(c) “Honor.”
(d) “Refinement.”

3. What does the narrator say Aunt Jimmy died of in Part IV?
(a) Peach cobbler.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Brain cancer.
(d) Drinking whiskey.

4. Where were Frieda’s parents when Mr. Henry “touched her” in Part IV?
(a) At the library.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Weeding the garden.
(d) At church.

5. Where does Pecola say the prostitute China is going to take her to see the square in Part IV?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Elyria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighbor told Mrs. MacTeer that Frieda should be taken to the doctor after the run-in with Mr. Henry in case she was “ruined” in Part IV?

2. What does Pecola’s mother demand that Pecola’s father get out of bed and go get for her in their argument in Part II?

3. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?

4. The “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” tells Aunt Jimmy to drink nothing but what when she is ill in Part IV?

5. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?

(see the answer key)

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