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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) “Skinny and feeble.”
(b) “Old and senile.”
(c) “Weathered and angry.”
(d) “Big and strong.”

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

3. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Immoral thinking.”
(b) “Criminal behavior.”
(c) “Evil and sadness.”
(d) “Lust or despair.”

4. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?
(a) Spacing.
(b) Vowels.
(c) Consonants.
(d) Punctuation.

5. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?
(a) That the hatred is not accurate.
(b) That the hatred is justified.
(c) That the hatred is unjustified.
(d) That the hatred is accurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near what local coal company does the narrator say she sometimes goes in the evenings with grown-ups to fill burlap sacks with coal in Part II?

2. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?

3. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

4. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?

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

(see the answer key)

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