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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Playing house with them.
(b) Playing dress-up with them.
(c) Adoring them.
(d) Dismembering them.

2. Which of the prostitutes in Part III is described as “thin, aging, absentminded, and unaggressive”?
(a) Poland.
(b) China.
(c) Miss Marie.
(d) Maginot Line.

3. On what street had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Second Street.
(b) Thirteenth Street.
(c) Fifth Street.
(d) Eighth Street.

4. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?
(a) Had violent outbursts.
(b) Had seizures.
(c) Sleepwalked.
(d) Wet the bed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?

3. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?

4. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?

5. 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?

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