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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Part II, “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed” what?
(a) “They did not deserve any better.”
(b) “God would save them.”
(c) “Their luck would change.”
(d) “They were ugly.”

2. What were the names of Pauline Williams’s parents?
(a) Beth and Forrest Williams.
(b) Connie and Franklin Williams.
(c) Ada and Fowler Williams.
(d) Pauline and Frederick Williams.

3. For how much money do Claudia and Frieda sell their packets of seeds in Part V?
(a) 10 cents.
(b) 15 cents.
(c) 5 cents.
(d) 25 cents.

4. Who is the narrator of Part I?
(a) Pecola Breedlove.
(b) Claudia MacTeer.
(c) Poland.
(d) Frieda MacTeer.

5. Pecola’s idealization for white beauty is illustrated in the novel through her love of what movie star?
(a) Betty Grable.
(b) Shirley Temple.
(c) Vanessa Redgrave.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Pecola, the narrator says in Part V, “Her inarticulateness made us believe we were” what?

2. Where does Pecola say the prostitute China is going to take her to see the square in Part IV?

3. The narrator says in Part IV, “Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of” what?

4. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?

5. The narrator recalls a summer her mother knew in what year in Part V?

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