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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the narrator’s sister in Part II?
(a) 13.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

2. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?
(a) Planning to kill her father.
(b) Praying for bad weather.
(c) Depressed about life.
(d) Having her father’s baby.

3. 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?
(a) MacTeer.
(b) Yacobowski.
(c) Williams.
(d) Villanucci.

4. Who is the narrator of Part I?
(a) Pecola Breedlove.
(b) Frieda MacTeer.
(c) Claudia MacTeer.
(d) Poland.

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
(a) Green and gold.
(b) Gold and blue.
(c) Blue and green.
(d) Green and white.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?

3. On what street had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

4. How old does the narrator say she is in Part II?

5. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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