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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?
(a) Sammy.
(b) Mildred.
(c) Pecola.
(d) Claudia.

2. What were the names of Pauline Williams’s parents?
(a) Pauline and Frederick Williams.
(b) Ada and Fowler Williams.
(c) Connie and Franklin Williams.
(d) Beth and Forrest Williams.

3. What happens to Pecola’s baby in Part V?
(a) He grows up to become a senator.
(b) She abandons it on the railroad tracks.
(c) She gives it up for adoption.
(d) It is born prematurely and dies.

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?
(a) “Mathematics.”
(b) “Science.”
(c) “Religion.”
(d) “Obedience.”

5. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?
(a) Planted them too deep.
(b) Over-watered them.
(c) Planted them too shallow.
(d) Under-watered them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Claudia and Frieda promise to God to give up if Pecola’s baby lives in Part V?

2. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?

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

4. Who came and said that Frieda’s father was going to jail, causing Frieda to punch her in Part IV?

5. Pecola’s idealization for white beauty is illustrated in the novel through her love of what movie star?

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