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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?
(a) He says he is too busy.
(b) He smiles.
(c) He gets mad.
(d) He cries.

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

3. Who calls Mrs. MacTeer and tells her that Claudia, Pecola and Frieda are “playing nasty” in Part II?
(a) Miss Dunion.
(b) Paula Williams.
(c) Ada Williams.
(d) Rosemary.

4. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1936.

5. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?
(a) Brown stockings and cod liver oil.
(b) White shirts and pencils.
(c) Black shoes and books.
(d) Plaid skirts and vitamins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?

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

4. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?

5. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?

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