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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?
(a) Jane Withers.
(b) Marylin Monroe.
(c) Katherine Hepburn.
(d) Audrey Hepburn.

2. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1941.

3. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

4. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?
(a) James.
(b) John.
(c) Dick.
(d) Bill.

5. 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) “An imaginative one.”
(b) “A realistic one.”
(c) “A classic one.”
(d) “A representative one.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator’s sister in Part II?

2. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?

3. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?

4. 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?

5. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?

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