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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 wristwatch.”
(b) “A wheelbarrow.”
(c) “Side pockets.”
(d) “A top hat.”

3. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
(a) Columbus, Ohio.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Lorain, Ohio.
(d) Cleveland, Ohio.

4. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?
(a) Blue eyes.
(b) Blond hair.
(c) Freckles.
(d) Green eyes.

5. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Lust or despair.”
(b) “Immoral thinking.”
(c) “Criminal behavior.”
(d) “Evil and sadness.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?

3. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?

4. 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?

5. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?

(see the answer key)

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