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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Washington Irving School.
(b) George Washington Irving School.
(c) Benjamin Franklin School.
(d) Abraham Lincoln School.

2. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) An old woman.
(b) An old man.
(c) A new bride.
(d) A child.

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. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?
(a) “Collective memory.”
(b) “Justice.”
(c) “Time.”
(d) “Disqualifying metaphors.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claudia say that the girls from places like Mobile and Aiken use to straighten their hair in Part III?

2. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they acquire skills in order to get rid of “the funkiness” of what?

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

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “hold their behind in for fear of a sway too” what, in Part III?

5. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

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