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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The Polish hotel.”
(b) “The Spanish hotel.”
(c) “The Greek hotel.”
(d) “The English hotel.”

3. Who is described as “still trotting up and down Sixteenth Street talking to herself” in Part II?
(a) Auntie Julia.
(b) Miss Forrester.
(c) Baby Jenny.
(d) Miss Bertha.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?

2. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?

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

4. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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