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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Yell.
(c) Cry.
(d) Eat.

2. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?
(a) Lorain.
(b) Meridian.
(c) Elyria.
(d) Cleveland.

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

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

5. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?
(a) He has left town.
(b) He’s become President.
(c) He has become rich.
(d) He has died.

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

3. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?

4. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?

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

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