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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Yell.
(c) Eat.
(d) Cry.

2. Frieda slams her books on whose head when she and Claudia encounter schoolboys taunting Pecola in Part III?
(a) Bay Boy's.
(b) P.L.'s.
(c) Woodrow Cain’s.
(d) Dick's.

3. Who does Cholly’s aunt say his father was in Part IV?
(a) “That MacTeer boy.”
(b) “That Yacobowski boy.”
(c) “That Peal boy.”
(d) “That Fuller boy.”

4. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?
(a) Mildred.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Sammy.
(d) Pecola.

5. The sound of what town’s name “opens the windows of a room like the first four notes of a hymn,” according to Claudia in Part III?
(a) Elyria.
(b) Meridian.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?

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

3. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?

4. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?

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