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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who came running out with his gun during the conflict with Mr. Henry in Part IV?
(a) Mr. Villanucci.
(b) Mr. Yacobowski.
(c) Mr. Buford.
(d) Mr. Henry.

2. 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.

3. What does the narrator say Aunt Jimmy died of in Part IV?
(a) Drinking whiskey.
(b) Brain cancer.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Peach cobbler.

4. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) “Tag.”
(b) “Chess.”
(c) “King of the Mountain.”
(d) “Red Rover.”

5. Claudia’s mother sings a song about trains where in the beginning of Part IV?
(a) Montana.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Arkansas.

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

7. With what animal does Geraldine’s son torment Pecola in Part III?
(a) A dog.
(b) A snake.
(c) A fish.
(d) A cat.

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

9. Who does Cholly’s aunt say his father was in Part IV?
(a) “That Yacobowski boy.”
(b) “That Peal boy.”
(c) “That MacTeer boy.”
(d) “That Fuller boy.”

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

11. What is Geraldine’s son called in Part III?
(a) J.C.
(b) Junior.
(c) Paul.
(d) Sammy.

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

13. Mr. Henry tells Claudia and Frieda that the prostitutes who just left were what in Part III?
(a) Members of his Bible class.
(b) School teachers.
(c) Undercover police women.
(d) Spies for a foreign government.

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?

3. Which teacher does Frieda say called Bay Boy “incorrigival” in Part III?

4. How does Pecola’s mother describe Pecola when she was born in Part IV?

5. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?

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