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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 Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) Food to eat.
(b) Blue eyes.
(c) A new dress.
(d) A boyfriend.

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

3. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?
(a) Brown.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Orange.

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?
(a) “The weary master.”
(b) “Newborn babies.”
(c) “The elderly.”
(d) “The proud parents.”

5. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?
(a) Jane Withers.
(b) Audrey Hepburn.
(c) Marylin Monroe.
(d) Katherine Hepburn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the names of Pauline Williams’s parents?

2. Which of the prostitutes with Mr. Henry in Part III is described as “the one church women never allowed their eyes to rest on”?

3. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?

4. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?

5. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?

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