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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 the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?
(a) Frieda MacTeer.
(b) Rosemary Villanucci.
(c) Pecola Breedlove.
(d) Maureen Peal.

2. Where did Cholly’s mother abandon him when he was four days old?
(a) By the railroad.
(b) At the hospital.
(c) By church steps.
(d) At an orphanage.

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

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

5. Who came and said that Frieda’s father was going to jail, causing Frieda to punch her in Part IV?
(a) Miss Buford.
(b) Sally.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Maureen.

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. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?

3. The narrator states in Part II, “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed” what?

4. What does Mrs. MacTeer say “ate up” the prostitutes named China and Poland in Part IV?

5. 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”?

(see the answer key)

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