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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in the Foreword, “In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause I chose a unique situation, not" what?
(a) “An imaginative one.”
(b) “A realistic one.”
(c) “A classic one.”
(d) “A representative one.”

2. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) Blue eyes.
(b) A new dress.
(c) Food to eat.
(d) A boyfriend.

3. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “A series of bad choices.”
(b) “Societal pressures.”
(c) “The poorest of luck.”
(d) “A crippled and crippling family.”

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?
(a) “Retired.”
(b) “Wide.”
(c) “Wild.”
(d) “Free.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?

2. Mrs. MacTeer exclaims during her diatribe in Part II, “I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with” what?

3. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?

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

5. Where were Frieda’s parents when Mr. Henry “touched her” in Part IV?

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