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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What name was Soaphead Church born with?
(a) James McAnderson.
(b) Williams Smith.
(c) Anderson Williams Buford.
(d) Elihue Micah Whitcomb.

4. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III that they go to what kind of colleges?
(a) Ivy League colleges.
(b) Community colleges.
(c) Land-grant colleges.
(d) Ivory League colleges.

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) Plaid skirts and vitamins.
(c) White shirts and pencils.
(d) Black shoes and books.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?

2. Where does Pecola say the prostitute China is going to take her to see the square in Part IV?

3. Where is Pecola’s father when she goes to stay with the MacTeer family in Part II?

4. What notion does the narrator refer to in Part IV as “Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”?

5. The narrator in Part II describes the adults as treating illness in children with what?

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