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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III, “They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex” what?
(a) “Layin’ Down.”
(b) “The horizontal hustle.”
(c) “Fornicating.”
(d) “Nookey.”

2. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “learn how to do the white man's work with” what, in Part III?
(a) “Honor.”
(b) “Pleasure.”
(c) “Integrity.”
(d) “Refinement.”

3. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they acquire skills in order to get rid of “the funkiness” of what?
(a) “Passion.”
(b) “Murder.”
(c) “Capitalism.”
(d) “Bigotry.”

4. Where did Cholly Breedlove first find work when he came to Lorain, Ohio?
(a) The slaughterhouses.
(b) The river barges.
(c) The steel mills.
(d) The cornfields.

5. Maureen tells Claudia, Pecola and Frieda that her uncle sued which ice cream company in Part III?
(a) Breyer’s.
(b) Isaley’s.
(c) Dove.
(d) Blue Bunny.

6. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?
(a) Miss Forrester.
(b) Miss Peal.
(c) Miss Cain.
(d) Miss Erkmeister.

7. Where did Pauline Williams’s family move after World War I for the mines and millwork?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Ohio.

8. The narrator refers to her father in Part III as a “wolf killer turned” what?
(a) “Trout slayer.”
(b) “Hawk fighter.”
(c) “Deer hunter.”
(d) “Pika trapper.”

9. The sound of what town’s name “opens the windows of a room like the first four notes of a hymn,” according to Claudia in Part III?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Elyria.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Meridian.

10. How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?
(a) She fell down the stairs.
(b) She kicked a door.
(c) A dog bit her.
(d) She stepped on a rusty nail.

11. How does the narrator define “colored people” in Part III?
(a) “Loud and obnoxious.”
(b) “Quiet and dangerous.”
(c) “Sinful but pretty.”
(d) “Neat and quiet.”

12. Where does Frieda say she’s going to get potato chips while Claudia goes to buy ice cream with the money Mr. Henry gave them in Part III?
(a) Miss Julie's.
(b) Miss Erkmeister’s.
(c) Miss Forrester's.
(d) Miss Bertha's.

13. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?
(a) “The proud parents.”
(b) “Newborn babies.”
(c) “The elderly.”
(d) “The weary master.”

14. How many years of school did Pauline Williams attend?
(a) 4.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

15. Who is described as a “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” during Aunt Jimmy’s illness in Part IV?
(a) M'Dear.
(b) Mrs. Dunion.
(c) Miss Forrester.
(d) Maginot Line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came and said that Frieda’s father was going to jail, causing Frieda to punch her in Part IV?

2. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?

3. Where did Cholly’s mother abandon him when he was four days old?

4. What does Pecola say Maginot Line’s real name is in Part IV?

5. Who came running out with his gun during the conflict with Mr. Henry in Part IV?

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