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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the prostitutes with Mr. Henry in Part III is described as “the one church women never allowed their eyes to rest on”?
(a) Maginot Line.
(b) China.
(c) Poland.
(d) Miss Bertha.

2. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III, “They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex” what?
(a) “Fornicating.”
(b) “Layin’ Down.”
(c) “The horizontal hustle.”
(d) “Nookey.”

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

4. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?
(a) “Avalanche.”
(b) “Erupt.”
(c) “Explode.”
(d) “Melt.”

5. 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 savage animals.”
(c) “The unyielding earth.”
(d) “The infinite sky.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname do Claudia and Frieda call Maureen Peal in Part III?

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

3. What kind of lotion does Claudia say the girls from places like Mobile and Aiken use in Part III?

4. Which of the prostitutes in Part III is described as “thin, aging, absentminded, and unaggressive”?

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?

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