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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?
(a) Katherine Hepburn.
(b) Jane Withers.
(c) Marylin Monroe.
(d) Audrey Hepburn.

2. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
(a) “When.”
(b) “How.”
(c) “What.”
(d) “Why.”

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

4. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The English hotel.”
(b) “The Spanish hotel.”
(c) “The Polish hotel.”
(d) “The Greek hotel.”

5. How much milk does Mrs. MacTeer complain about having disappeared from her refrigerator overnight in Part II?
(a) 2 quarts.
(b) 3 gallons.
(c) 3 quarts.
(d) 1 quart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?

3. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?

4. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?

5. 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?

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