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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Chuck E. White.
(b) Fred Astaire.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Bojangles.

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

3. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?
(a) “Disqualifying metaphors.”
(b) “Justice.”
(c) “Time.”
(d) “Collective memory.”

4. How much milk does Mrs. MacTeer complain about having disappeared from her refrigerator overnight in Part II?
(a) 1 quart.
(b) 2 quarts.
(c) 3 gallons.
(d) 3 quarts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?

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

3. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?

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

5. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

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