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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
(a) Green and white.
(b) Gold and blue.
(c) Green and gold.
(d) Blue and green.

2. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?
(a) Rosemary Villanucci.
(b) Frieda MacTeer.
(c) Maureen Peal.
(d) Pecola Breedlove.

3. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?
(a) “Collective memory.”
(b) “Time.”
(c) “Disqualifying metaphors.”
(d) “Justice.”

4. 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) “Refinement.”
(b) “Integrity.”
(c) “Honor.”
(d) “Pleasure.”

5. The author states in the book’s Foreword that in constructing the narrative she did not want to do what to "the characters who trashed Pecola and contributed to her collapse"?
(a) Make them seem human.
(b) Justify their actions.
(c) Dehumanize them.
(d) Make them into martyrs.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?

2. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?

3. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?

4. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?

5. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?

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