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

2. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?
(a) “Justice.”
(b) “Collective memory.”
(c) “Time.”
(d) “Disqualifying metaphors.”

3. What does Pecola’s mother demand that Pecola’s father get out of bed and go get for her in their argument in Part II?
(a) Milk.
(b) Flour.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Coal.

4. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
(a) Columbus, Ohio.
(b) Cleveland, Ohio.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Lorain, Ohio.

5. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?
(a) “Weathered and angry.”
(b) “Skinny and feeble.”
(c) “Old and senile.”
(d) “Big and strong.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?

2. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?

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

4. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?

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