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

2. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Woodrow Cain.
(b) Miss Dunion.
(c) Mr. Yacobowski.
(d) Mr. Buford.

3. 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) “Guilty.”
(b) “Moved.”
(c) “Enlightened.”
(d) “Informed.”

4. 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 accurate.
(b) That the hatred is unjustified.
(c) That the hatred is justified.
(d) That the hatred is not accurate.

5. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?
(a) “My money.”
(b) “My advice.”
(c) “Me to die.”
(d) “My help.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?

2. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?

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

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

5. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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