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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?
(a) Praying for bad weather.
(b) Planning to kill her father.
(c) Depressed about life.
(d) Having her father’s baby.

2. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 11.
(d) 10.

3. Mr. Henry tells Claudia and Frieda that the prostitutes who just left were what in Part III?
(a) Spies for a foreign government.
(b) Members of his Bible class.
(c) Undercover police women.
(d) School teachers.

4. The narrator refers to her father in Part III as a “wolf killer turned” what?
(a) “Deer hunter.”
(b) “Hawk fighter.”
(c) “Pika trapper.”
(d) “Trout slayer.”

5. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?
(a) Lorain.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Meridian.
(d) Elyria.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The narrator recalls a summer her mother knew in what year in Part V?

3. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?

4. 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"?

5. The author states in the Foreword, “In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause I chose a unique situation, not" what?

(see the answer key)

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