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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) Katherine Hepburn.
(c) Jane Withers.
(d) Marylin Monroe.

2. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?
(a) Lorain.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Elyria.
(d) Meridian.

3. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?
(a) He gets mad.
(b) He cries.
(c) He smiles.
(d) He says he is too busy.

4. 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 unyielding earth.”
(b) “The savage animals.”
(c) “The sands of time.”
(d) “The infinite sky.”

5. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Mr. Buford.
(b) Miss Dunion.
(c) Mr. Yacobowski.
(d) Woodrow Cain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?

2. 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?

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

4. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?

5. What kind of car is Rosemary sitting in while she eats bread and butter in the beginning of Part II?

(see the answer key)

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