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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Part IV, “But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word” of whom?
(a) “The dreamer.”
(b) “The waker.”
(c) “The analyst.”
(d) “The subject.”

2. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
(a) Columbus, Ohio.
(b) Cleveland, Ohio.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Lorain, Ohio.

3. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Miss Erkmeister.
(b) Miss Delia Jones.
(c) Miss Poland.
(d) Miss Marie.

4. Where did Pauline Williams’s family move after World War I for the mines and millwork?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Kentucky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what magazine does Claudia imagine the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken reading in Part III?

2. How old does the narrator say she is in Part II?

3. Claudia says in Part III that she and Frieda always did their “Candy Dance” under the lilac bushes on the side of the house so that who would see and become jealous?

4. How does Pecola’s mother describe Pecola when she was born in Part IV?

5. In speaking of Cholly, Mrs. Breedlove says in Part IV, “I started to leave him once, but something came up. Once, after he tried to” do what?

(see the answer key)

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