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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Claudia’s mother sings a song about trains where in the beginning of Part IV?
(a) Montana.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Arkansas.

2. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Dismembering them.
(b) Playing house with them.
(c) Adoring them.
(d) Playing dress-up with them.

3. Who calls Mrs. MacTeer and tells her that Claudia, Pecola and Frieda are “playing nasty” in Part II?
(a) Rosemary.
(b) Miss Dunion.
(c) Paula Williams.
(d) Ada Williams.

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

5. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?

2. Frieda slams her books on whose head when she and Claudia encounter schoolboys taunting Pecola in Part III?

3. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?

4. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?

5. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?

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