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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much milk does Mrs. MacTeer complain about having disappeared from her refrigerator overnight in Part II?
(a) 3 gallons.
(b) 3 quarts.
(c) 2 quarts.
(d) 1 quart.

2. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?
(a) “Me to die.”
(b) “My help.”
(c) “My advice.”
(d) “My money.”

3. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?
(a) Meridian.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Lorain.
(d) Elyria.

4. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?
(a) The goldfish.
(b) The cat.
(c) The hampster.
(d) The dog.

5. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?
(a) The elderly.
(b) A male.
(c) A female.
(d) Children.

6. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Evil and sadness.”
(b) “Lust or despair.”
(c) “Criminal behavior.”
(d) “Immoral thinking.”

7. 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”?
(a) Bojangles.
(b) Louis Armstrong.
(c) Fred Astaire.
(d) Chuck E. White.

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

9. 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) “They were ugly.”
(d) “Their luck would change.”

10. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?
(a) Yacobowski.
(b) Villanucci.
(c) MacTeer.
(d) Williams.

11. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?
(a) “The unyielding earth.”
(b) “The savage animals.”
(c) “The sands of time.”
(d) “The infinite sky.”

12. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?
(a) “Something to cherish.”
(b) “Something that could inspire.”
(c) “Something that could remind.”
(d) “Something one could do.”

13. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “A crippled and crippling family.”
(b) “A series of bad choices.”
(c) “Societal pressures.”
(d) “The poorest of luck.”

14. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 11.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

2. Who calls Mrs. MacTeer and tells her that Claudia, Pecola and Frieda are “playing nasty” in Part II?

3. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?

4. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

5. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?

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