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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?
(a) Yell.
(b) Cry.
(c) Eat.
(d) Sleep.

2. What flowers does the narrator say even now hold no cheer for her in the spring in Part IV?
(a) Tulips.
(b) Jonquils.
(c) Magnolias.
(d) Forsythias.

3. Which movie does Maureen say the name Pecola is from in Part III?
(a) Imitation of Life.
(b) East of Eden.
(c) Vertigo.
(d) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

4. In what magazine does Claudia imagine the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken reading in Part III?
(a) The Equality Magazine.
(b) The Liberty Magazine.
(c) The Freedom Magazine.
(d) The Justice Magazine.

5. The narrator says in Part IV, “Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of” what?
(a) “Switchings.”
(b) “Spankings.”
(c) “Swattings.”
(d) “Swattings.”

6. Which teacher does Frieda say called Bay Boy “incorrigival” in Part III?
(a) Miss Barkley.
(b) Miss Erkmeister.
(c) Miss Forrester.
(d) Miss Julia.

7. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Abraham Lincoln School.
(b) George Washington Irving School.
(c) Washington Irving School.
(d) Benjamin Franklin School.

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

9. Pauline Williams was one of how many children in her family?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

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

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

12. When Frieda tells Claudia what happened with Mr. Henry, Mr. Henry is compared to what townsperson in Part IV?
(a) Mr. MacTeer.
(b) Miss Bertha.
(c) Mr. Breedlove.
(d) Soaphead Church.

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

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

15. Which of the prostitutes in town does Mrs. MacTeer say is a “ruined” woman?
(a) Miss Delia Jones.
(b) Miss Forrester.
(c) Miss Julia.
(d) Maginot Line.

Short Answer Questions

1. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “hold their behind in for fear of a sway too” what, in Part III?

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

3. Who is described as a “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” during Aunt Jimmy’s illness in Part IV?

4. 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?

5. What does the narrator say Aunt Jimmy died of in Part IV?

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