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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” tells Aunt Jimmy to drink nothing but what when she is ill in Part IV?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Water.
(c) Pot liquor.
(d) Orange Juice.

2. What is Geraldine’s husband’s name in the novel?
(a) Louis.
(b) Junior.
(c) Henry.
(d) Fowler.

3. What did Frieda’s father throw at Mr. Henry, knocking him off the porch, in Part IV?
(a) A glass bowl.
(b) A tricycle.
(c) An axe.
(d) A chair.

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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) Meridian.
(c) Elyria.
(d) Cleveland.

8. What nickname do Claudia and Frieda call Maureen Peal in Part III?
(a) Meringue Pie.
(b) Mary Anne.
(c) Banana Peel.
(d) Molasses Syrup.

9. What lake is near where Claudia and Frieda live in the novel?
(a) Lake Michigan.
(b) Lake Erie.
(c) Lake Superior.
(d) Lake Huron.

10. 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) “Refinement.”
(b) “Integrity.”
(c) “Honor.”
(d) “Pleasure.”

11. Where were Frieda’s parents when Mr. Henry “touched her” in Part IV?
(a) Weeding the garden.
(b) Shopping.
(c) At the library.
(d) At church.

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

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

14. In speaking of Cholly, Mrs. Breedlove says in Part IV, “I started to leave him once, but something came up. Once, after he tried to” do what?
(a) “Shoot himself.”
(b) “Drown himself.”
(c) “Hang himself.”
(d) “Light the house on fire.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What notion does the narrator refer to in Part IV as “Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”?

2. 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?

3. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?

4. Which of the prostitutes in town does Mrs. MacTeer say is a “ruined” woman?

5. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?

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