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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?
(a) Green.
(b) Orange.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

2. 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 elderly.”
(b) “The proud parents.”
(c) “The weary master.”
(d) “Newborn babies.”

3. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?
(a) Dunion.
(b) Washington.
(c) Yacobowski.
(d) Whitcomb.

4. Mr. Henry tells Claudia and Frieda that the prostitutes who just left were what in Part III?
(a) School teachers.
(b) Spies for a foreign government.
(c) Members of his Bible class.
(d) Undercover police women.

5. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?
(a) Green eyes.
(b) Freckles.
(c) Blond hair.
(d) Blue eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maureen tells Claudia, Pecola and Frieda that her uncle sued which ice cream company in Part III?

2. Which movie does Maureen say the name Pecola is from in Part III?

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

4. What is Geraldine’s husband’s name in the novel?

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

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