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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?
(a) “Weathered and angry.”
(b) “Old and senile.”
(c) “Skinny and feeble.”
(d) “Big and strong.”

2. Where is Pecola’s father when she goes to stay with the MacTeer family in Part II?
(a) In the hospital.
(b) In Mexico.
(c) In jail.
(d) In Europe.

3. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
(a) “What.”
(b) “When.”
(c) “Why.”
(d) “How.”

4. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?
(a) “The sands of time.”
(b) “The infinite sky.”
(c) “The unyielding earth.”
(d) “The savage animals.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?

4. 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?

5. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?

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