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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 Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) A child.
(b) An old man.
(c) A new bride.
(d) An old woman.

2. Frieda and Claudia discover the Pecola has become impregnated by whom in Part V?
(a) Cholly Breedlove.
(b) Bay Boy.
(c) Mr. Henry.
(d) J.L.

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

4. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
(a) “How.”
(b) “When.”
(c) “Why.”
(d) “What.”

5. How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?
(a) She stepped on a rusty nail.
(b) She fell down the stairs.
(c) She kicked a door.
(d) A dog bit her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?

2. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?

3. The narrator says in Part V of the novel that summer remains for her a season of what?

4. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?

5. Who had at one time been the idols of Geraldine’s son, according to the narrator in Part III?

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