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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?
(a) “Religion.”
(b) “Mathematics.”
(c) “Obedience.”
(d) “Science.”

2. What do Claudia and Frieda hope to get from Pecola in Part IV?
(a) Tequila.
(b) Rum.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Whiskey.

3. The author states in the book’s Foreword that in constructing the narrative she did not want to do what to "the characters who trashed Pecola and contributed to her collapse"?
(a) Make them seem human.
(b) Make them into martyrs.
(c) Justify their actions.
(d) Dehumanize them.

4. Who calls Mrs. MacTeer and tells her that Claudia, Pecola and Frieda are “playing nasty” in Part II?
(a) Rosemary.
(b) Paula Williams.
(c) Ada Williams.
(d) Miss Dunion.

5. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?
(a) He has left town.
(b) He has become rich.
(c) He’s become President.
(d) He has died.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Claudia’s mother sings a song about trains where in the beginning of Part IV?

3. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?

4. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?

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”?

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