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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) “A classic one.”
(b) “A representative one.”
(c) “A realistic one.”
(d) “An imaginative one.”

2. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?
(a) Whitcomb.
(b) Washington.
(c) Dunion.
(d) Yacobowski.

3. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “Societal pressures.”
(b) “A crippled and crippling family.”
(c) “A series of bad choices.”
(d) “The poorest of luck.”

4. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?
(a) “Enlightened.”
(b) “Informed.”
(c) “Guilty.”
(d) “Moved.”

5. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Miss Erkmeister.
(b) Miss Marie.
(c) Miss Delia Jones.
(d) Miss Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?

2. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?

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

4. 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?

5. 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”?

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