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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pecola’s mother describe Pecola when she was born in Part IV?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Cranky.
(d) Chubby.

2. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The Spanish hotel.”
(b) “The Greek hotel.”
(c) “The Polish hotel.”
(d) “The English hotel.”

3. In speaking of Cholly, Mrs. Breedlove says in Part IV, “I started to leave him once, but something came up. Once, after he tried to” do what?
(a) “Hang himself.”
(b) “Shoot himself.”
(c) “Light the house on fire.”
(d) “Drown himself.”

4. What is Geraldine’s husband’s name in the novel?
(a) Junior.
(b) Fowler.
(c) Henry.
(d) Louis.

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
(a) Green and white.
(b) Gold and blue.
(c) Blue and green.
(d) Green and gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?

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

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

4. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III that they go to what kind of colleges?

5. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?

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