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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She runs off.
(c) She cries.
(d) She screams.

2. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
(a) 6.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

3. What is Maureen Peal said to have “even bought and liked” in Part III?
(a) White bread.
(b) White milk.
(c) White flour.
(d) White rice.

4. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?
(a) “Something to cherish.”
(b) “Something that could inspire.”
(c) “Something one could do.”
(d) “Something that could remind.”

5. What neighbor told Mrs. MacTeer that Frieda should be taken to the doctor after the run-in with Mr. Henry in case she was “ruined” in Part IV?
(a) Essie Foster.
(b) Maureen Peal.
(c) Claudia MacTeer.
(d) Mrs. Dunion.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?

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

3. Where did Cholly’s mother abandon him when he was four days old?

4. Claudia says in Part III that she and Frieda always did their “Candy Dance” under the lilac bushes on the side of the house so that who would see and become jealous?

5. Which of the prostitutes in Part III is described as “thin, aging, absentminded, and unaggressive”?

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