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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) Water.
(b) Orange Juice.
(c) Pot liquor.
(d) Whiskey.

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

3. What do Claudia and Frieda hope to get from Pecola in Part IV?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Rum.
(d) Tequila.

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

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

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

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

8. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III that they go to what kind of colleges?
(a) Land-grant colleges.
(b) Community colleges.
(c) Ivory League colleges.
(d) Ivy League colleges.

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

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

11. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?
(a) Had violent outbursts.
(b) Wet the bed.
(c) Had seizures.
(d) Sleepwalked.

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

13. What neighbor told Mrs. MacTeer that Frieda should be taken to the doctor after the run-in with Mr. Henry in case she was “ruined” in Part IV?
(a) Essie Foster.
(b) Maureen Peal.
(c) Claudia MacTeer.
(d) Mrs. Dunion.

14. What notion does the narrator refer to in Part IV as “Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”?
(a) Religious beliefs.
(b) Desire for money.
(c) Racial inequality.
(d) Physical beauty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Where did Cholly Breedlove first find work when he came to Lorain, Ohio?

4. What nickname do Claudia and Frieda call Maureen Peal in Part III?

5. What kind of lotion does Claudia say the girls from places like Mobile and Aiken use in Part III?

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