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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 says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?
(a) “Me to die.”
(b) “My advice.”
(c) “My help.”
(d) “My money.”

2. 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”?
(a) Chuck E. White.
(b) Fred Astaire.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Bojangles.

3. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Miss Dunion.
(b) Mr. Yacobowski.
(c) Woodrow Cain.
(d) Mr. Buford.

4. Where does Maginot Line say Pecola has gone when Claudia and Frieda come looking for her in Part IV?
(a) Her father's workplace.
(b) Her aunt's house.
(c) Her grandparent's house.
(d) Her mother’s workplace.

5. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?
(a) Consonants.
(b) Vowels.
(c) Punctuation.
(d) Spacing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

2. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?

3. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?

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

5. Where did Cholly Breedlove first find work when he came to Lorain, Ohio?

(see the answer key)

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