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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?
(a) He makes a penny disappear.
(b) He makes his thumb disappear.
(c) He pulls a rabbit from a hat.
(d) He saws a lady in half.

2. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?
(a) A male.
(b) A female.
(c) Children.
(d) The elderly.

3. What is Geraldine’s husband’s name in the novel?
(a) Louis.
(b) Fowler.
(c) Junior.
(d) Henry.

4. What is Geraldine’s son called in Part III?
(a) Paul.
(b) Sammy.
(c) J.C.
(d) Junior.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?

3. 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?

4. The author states in the book’s Foreword that in constructing the narrative she did not want to do what to "the characters who trashed Pecola and contributed to her collapse"?

5. What does Pecola’s mother demand that Pecola’s father get out of bed and go get for her in their argument in Part II?

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