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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Audrey Hepburn.
(b) Marylin Monroe.
(c) Jane Withers.
(d) Katherine Hepburn.

2. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?
(a) “Guilty.”
(b) “Moved.”
(c) “Enlightened.”
(d) “Informed.”

3. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.

4. Who is the narrator of Part I?
(a) Frieda MacTeer.
(b) Poland.
(c) Claudia MacTeer.
(d) Pecola Breedlove.

5. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?
(a) “My advice.”
(b) “My help.”
(c) “Me to die.”
(d) “My money.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?

2. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?

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

4. Mrs. MacTeer exclaims during her diatribe in Part II, “I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with” what?

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

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