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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?
(a) Yacobowski.
(b) Washington.
(c) Whitcomb.
(d) Dunion.

2. What does Claudia say that the girls from places like Mobile and Aiken use to straighten their hair in Part III?
(a) Dixie Peach.
(b) Alligator fat.
(c) Turnip juice.
(d) Cocnut oil.

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

4. Who is described as “still trotting up and down Sixteenth Street talking to herself” in Part II?
(a) Miss Bertha.
(b) Miss Forrester.
(c) Baby Jenny.
(d) Auntie Julia.

5. Frieda slams her books on whose head when she and Claudia encounter schoolboys taunting Pecola in Part III?
(a) P.L.'s.
(b) Dick's.
(c) Bay Boy's.
(d) Woodrow Cain’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Maginot Line say Pecola has gone when Claudia and Frieda come looking for her in Part IV?

2. What is Geraldine’s husband’s name in the novel?

3. Where did Pauline Williams’s family move after World War I for the mines and millwork?

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

5. How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?

(see the answer key)

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