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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?
(a) “My money.”
(b) “Me to die.”
(c) “My help.”
(d) “My advice.”

2. Near what local coal company does the narrator say she sometimes goes in the evenings with grown-ups to fill burlap sacks with coal in Part II?
(a) Zick’s Coal Company.
(b) Murphy's Coal Company.
(c) Johnson's Coal Company.
(d) Howard’s Coal Company.

3. Mrs. MacTeer exclaims during her diatribe in Part II, “I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with” what?
(a) “A wheelbarrow.”
(b) “Side pockets.”
(c) “A top hat.”
(d) “A wristwatch.”

4. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?
(a) Punctuation and capitalization.
(b) Every noun.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Every other word.

5. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?
(a) Black shoes and books.
(b) White shirts and pencils.
(c) Brown stockings and cod liver oil.
(d) Plaid skirts and vitamins.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much milk does Mrs. MacTeer complain about having disappeared from her refrigerator overnight in Part II?

2. What kind of car is Rosemary sitting in while she eats bread and butter in the beginning of Part II?

3. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?

4. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?

5. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Claudia and Frieda receive at the beginning of the school year in “Autumn”? What conversation consumes “the grownups” in the opening of this chapter?

2. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in “Here is the Family…”? Why?

3. What is the primary setting for the novel? How is the author connected to this setting?

4. What commotion begins when Rosemary “tattles” on Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola for “being nasty” in “Autumn”?

5. Why does Pecola Breedlove come to live with the MacTeers in “Autumn”?

6. What information is related to the reader in the brief italicized preface before “Autumn”?

7. Describe the “Dick and Jane” reader presented in Part I. How does this excerpt change in each retelling?

8. What foreshadowing is revealed by the narrator in the end of Part I?

9. How is the MacTeer home described in “Autumn”? How are the relationships between the children and the adults characterized?

10. Who can be seen in Part I as characters that face trouble assimilating into “white society’s standards of beauty”?

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