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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Miss Erkmeister.
(b) Miss Marie.
(c) Miss Poland.
(d) Miss Delia Jones.

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

3. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?
(a) He saws a lady in half.
(b) He makes a penny disappear.
(c) He makes his thumb disappear.
(d) He pulls a rabbit from a hat.

4. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?
(a) Fred Astaire.
(b) Louis Armstrong.
(c) Bojangles.
(d) Chuck E. White.

5. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?
(a) “The sands of time.”
(b) “The savage animals.”
(c) “The infinite sky.”
(d) “The unyielding earth.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?

2. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?

3. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?

4. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?

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

(see the answer key)

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