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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. MacTeer exclaims during her diatribe in Part II, “I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with” what?
(a) “A top hat.”
(b) “A wheelbarrow.”
(c) “A wristwatch.”
(d) “Side pockets.”

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?
(a) Milk.
(b) Coal.
(c) Flour.
(d) Eggs.

3. How old does the narrator say she is in Part II?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

4. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?
(a) Yacobowski.
(b) Villanucci.
(c) Williams.
(d) MacTeer.

5. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?
(a) That the hatred is not accurate.
(b) That the hatred is accurate.
(c) That the hatred is unjustified.
(d) That the hatred is justified.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sound of what town’s name “opens the windows of a room like the first four notes of a hymn,” according to Claudia in Part III?

2. On what street had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

3. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?

4. Which of the prostitutes in Part III is described as “thin, aging, absentminded, and unaggressive”?

5. How does the narrator define “colored people” in Part III?

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