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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Mr. Yacobowski.
(b) Miss Dunion.
(c) Woodrow Cain.
(d) Mr. Buford.

2. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?
(a) Miss Peal.
(b) Miss Cain.
(c) Miss Forrester.
(d) Miss Erkmeister.

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

4. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Lust or despair.”
(b) “Evil and sadness.”
(c) “Criminal behavior.”
(d) “Immoral thinking.”

5. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?
(a) Praying for bad weather.
(b) Depressed about life.
(c) Planning to kill her father.
(d) Having her father’s baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?

2. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?

3. What does the narrator say Aunt Jimmy died of in Part IV?

4. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?

5. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?

(see the answer key)

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