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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The sound of what town’s name “opens the windows of a room like the first four notes of a hymn,” according to Claudia in Part III?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Elyria.
(d) Meridian.

2. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?
(a) Blond hair.
(b) Freckles.
(c) Green eyes.
(d) Blue eyes.

3. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) “Red Rover.”
(b) “King of the Mountain.”
(c) “Chess.”
(d) “Tag.”

4. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?
(a) Every other word.
(b) Punctuation and capitalization.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Every noun.

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”?
(a) Bojangles.
(b) Chuck E. White.
(c) Fred Astaire.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

Short Answer 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?

2. Which movie does Maureen say the name Pecola is from in Part III?

3. How does the narrator define “colored people” in Part III?

4. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?

5. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?

(see the answer key)

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