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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?
(a) “Guilty.”
(b) “Enlightened.”
(c) “Informed.”
(d) “Moved.”

2. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Brown.

3. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Adoring them.
(b) Playing house with them.
(c) Playing dress-up with them.
(d) Dismembering them.

4. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?
(a) Consonants.
(b) Vowels.
(c) Punctuation.
(d) Spacing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. 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?

3. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

4. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?

5. Near what local coal company does the narrator say she sometimes goes in the evenings with grown-ups to fill burlap sacks with coal in Part II?

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