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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who had at one time been the idols of Geraldine’s son, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Bay Boy and P.L.
(b) Mr. Breelove.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. MacTeer.
(d) Soaphead Church.

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

4. Where does Maginot Line say Pecola has gone when Claudia and Frieda come looking for her in Part IV?
(a) Her grandparent's house.
(b) Her aunt's house.
(c) Her father's workplace.
(d) Her mother’s workplace.

5. Which of the prostitutes in Part III is described as “thin, aging, absentminded, and unaggressive”?
(a) China.
(b) Maginot Line.
(c) Poland.
(d) Miss Marie.

6. What does Frieda say her mother hit Mr. Henry with in Part IV?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A broom.
(c) A fire poker.
(d) A rolling pin.

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

8. Where does Pecola say the prostitute China is going to take her to see the square in Part IV?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Elyria.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

9. 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) China.
(b) Miss Bertha.
(c) Maginot Line.
(d) Poland.

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

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

12. What were the baby twin siblings of Pauline Williams called, according to the narrator in Part IV?
(a) Chicken and Pie.
(b) Coffee and muffins.
(c) Biscuits and Gravy.
(d) Fish and chips.

13. With what boy does Geraldine’s son play with, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Max Sidewell.
(b) Joey Robinson.
(c) Bay Boy.
(d) Ralph Nisensky.

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

15. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?
(a) “Mathematics.”
(b) “Obedience.”
(c) “Religion.”
(d) “Science.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the names of Pauline Williams’s parents?

2. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?

3. The narrator says in Part IV, “But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word” of whom?

4. What did Frieda’s father throw at Mr. Henry, knocking him off the porch, in Part IV?

5. The narrator refers to her father in Part III as a “wolf killer turned” what?

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