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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. Where did Cholly Breedlove first find work when he came to Lorain, Ohio?
(a) The river barges.
(b) The slaughterhouses.
(c) The steel mills.
(d) The cornfields.

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Pecola say the prostitute Poland is going to take her to see the Loop in Part IV?

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

5. What flowers does the narrator say even now hold no cheer for her in the spring in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Cholly Breedlove’s childhood described in “See Father…”? Who raised Cholly?

2. Where do Frieda and Claudia go to find Pecola after their exchange with Maginot Line in “Spring”? How is this setting described?

3. What are the perceptions of Claudia and Frieda as they wait to leave with Pecola from her mother’s workplace in “Spring”?

4. What are Claudia and Frieda’s feelings about Maureen Peal when she moves to Lorain in “Winter”?

5. How does the fresh cobbler come to be spilled in “Spring”? Who spills it?

6. How is Geraldine’s family described in “See the Cat…”? Upon what does Geraldine focus her affection?

7. Why does Frieda tell Claudia has happened with Mr. Henry in the beginning of Part IV?

8. To whom do Claudia and Frieda turn in order to obtain whiskey in “Spring”? Why?

9. “See the Cat…” begins with a discussion of what “types of girls”? Where are these individuals from?

10. What does Frieda say is the real reason she is crying when Claudia finds her in bed after Mr. Henry’s been kicked out in Part IV?

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