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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Claudia and Frieda promise to God to give up if Pecola’s baby lives in Part V?
(a) Their roller skates.
(b) Their ball.
(c) Their doll.
(d) Their bicycle.

2. Who does Cholly’s aunt say his father was in Part IV?
(a) “That MacTeer boy.”
(b) “That Peal boy.”
(c) “That Yacobowski boy.”
(d) “That Fuller boy.”

3. What notion does the narrator refer to in Part IV as “Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”?
(a) Racial inequality.
(b) Religious beliefs.
(c) Desire for money.
(d) Physical beauty.

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

5. Which of the prostitutes with Mr. Henry in Part III is described as “the one church women never allowed their eyes to rest on”?
(a) Poland.
(b) China.
(c) Miss Bertha.
(d) Maginot Line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pecola say the prostitute Poland is going to take her to see the Loop in Part IV?

2. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?

3. What lake is near where Claudia and Frieda live in the novel?

4. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?

5. In what year did the assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers take place?

(see the answer key)

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