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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) Fowler.
(b) Junior.
(c) Louis.
(d) Henry.

2. The narrator says in Part IV, “Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of” what?
(a) “Spankings.”
(b) “Switchings.”
(c) “Swattings.”
(d) “Swattings.”

3. Where does Pecola say the prostitute China is going to take her to see the square in Part IV?
(a) Elyria.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

4. When Frieda tells Claudia what happened with Mr. Henry, Mr. Henry is compared to what townsperson in Part IV?
(a) Mr. MacTeer.
(b) Miss Bertha.
(c) Soaphead Church.
(d) Mr. Breedlove.

5. 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 classic one.”
(c) “A realistic one.”
(d) “A representative one.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?

2. What neighbor told Mrs. MacTeer that Frieda should be taken to the doctor after the run-in with Mr. Henry in case she was “ruined” in Part IV?

3. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?

4. The “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” tells Aunt Jimmy to drink nothing but what when she is ill in Part IV?

5. Pauline Williams was one of how many children in her family?

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