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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?
(a) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(b) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(c) “Villain-ized or victimized.”
(d) “Victimized, or traumatized.”

3. Whose image is on the milk cup that Frieda brings to Pecola in Part II?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt’s.
(b) Shirley Temple’s.
(c) B.B. King's.
(d) Henry Ford's.

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

5. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?
(a) “The couch.”
(b) “The bed.”
(c) “The kitchen sink.”
(d) “The coal stove.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?

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

4. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?

5. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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