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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Chicago.
(b) Meridian.
(c) Elyria.
(d) Cleveland.

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

5. How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?
(a) She fell down the stairs.
(b) A dog bit her.
(c) She stepped on a rusty nail.
(d) She kicked a door.

Short Answer Questions

1. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?

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

3. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?

4. Who came running out with his gun during the conflict with Mr. Henry in Part IV?

5. What is Geraldine’s son called in Part III?

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