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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
(a) “Why.”
(b) “When.”
(c) “How.”
(d) “What.”

3. What does the little girl call Mrs. Breedlove at the house where Mrs. Breedlove works in Part IV?
(a) Sally.
(b) Polly.
(c) Molly.
(d) Holly.

4. Where does Maginot Line say Pecola has gone when Claudia and Frieda come looking for her in Part IV?
(a) Her mother’s workplace.
(b) Her father's workplace.
(c) Her grandparent's house.
(d) Her aunt's house.

5. What notion does the narrator refer to in Part IV as “Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”?
(a) Desire for money.
(b) Racial inequality.
(c) Physical beauty.
(d) Religious beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where is Pecola’s father when she goes to stay with the MacTeer family in Part II?

3. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?

4. Who came and said that Frieda’s father was going to jail, causing Frieda to punch her in Part IV?

5. Which of the prostitutes with Mr. Henry in Part III is described as “the one church women never allowed their eyes to rest on”?

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