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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. Which of the prostitutes in town does Mrs. MacTeer say is a “ruined” woman?
(a) Miss Julia.
(b) Maginot Line.
(c) Miss Forrester.
(d) Miss Delia Jones.

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

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

4. The narrator says in Part IV, “Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of” what?
(a) “Spankings.”
(b) “Switchings.”
(c) “Swattings.”
(d) “Swattings.”

5. 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) Orange Juice.
(d) Pot liquor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had at one time been the idols of Geraldine’s son, according to the narrator in Part III?

2. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?

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

4. Maureen tells Claudia, Pecola and Frieda that her uncle sued which ice cream company in Part III?

5. With what animal does Geraldine’s son torment Pecola in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mrs. Breedlove respond when she finds the spilled cobbler in “Spring”?

4. What happens when Frieda, Claudia, and Maureen Peal encounter some schoolboys taunting Pecola in “Winter”?

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

6. 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?

7. What exchange takes place between Maginot Line and Claudia and Frieda in “Spring”?

8. Who do Claudia and Frieda encounter leaving their house when they return from Miss Bertha’s store in Part III?

9. How is Maureen Peal described when she is first introduced in “Winter”?

10. What does Mr. Henry tell Claudia and Frieda about his unexpected guests in Part III? What do the girls do?

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