1. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?
(a) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(b) “Villain-ized or victimized.”
(c) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(d) “Victimized, or traumatized.”

2. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

3. The narrator in Part II describes the adults as treating illness in children with what?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Mercy.

4. Claudia says in Part III that she and Frieda always did their “Candy Dance” under the lilac bushes on the side of the house so that who would see and become jealous?
(a) M’Dear.
(b) Polly.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Pecola.

5. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Eat.
(c) Cry.
(d) Yell.

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. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

3. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?

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

5. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?

(see the answer key)

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