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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Part II, “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed” what?
(a) “They did not deserve any better.”
(b) “God would save them.”
(c) “They were ugly.”
(d) “Their luck would change.”

2. On what street had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Fifth Street.
(b) Second Street.
(c) Eighth Street.
(d) Thirteenth Street.

3. 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?
(a) “A wristwatch.”
(b) “Side pockets.”
(c) “A top hat.”
(d) “A wheelbarrow.”

4. The author states in the Foreword, “In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause I chose a unique situation, not" what?
(a) “An imaginative one.”
(b) “A classic one.”
(c) “A representative one.”
(d) “A realistic one.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose image is on the milk cup that Frieda brings to Pecola in Part II?

2. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

3. The narrator in Part II describes the adults as treating illness in children with what?

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

5. Who is described as “still trotting up and down Sixteenth Street talking to herself” in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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