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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 teacher does Frieda say called Bay Boy “incorrigival” in Part III?
(a) Miss Erkmeister.
(b) Miss Barkley.
(c) Miss Julia.
(d) Miss Forrester.

2. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “learn how to do the white man's work with” what, in Part III?
(a) “Honor.”
(b) “Refinement.”
(c) “Integrity.”
(d) “Pleasure.”

3. The “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” tells Aunt Jimmy to drink nothing but what when she is ill in Part IV?
(a) Water.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Orange Juice.
(d) Pot liquor.

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

5. 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 Liberty Magazine.
(c) The Equality Magazine.
(d) The Freedom Magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frieda slams her books on whose head when she and Claudia encounter schoolboys taunting Pecola in Part III?

2. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “hold their behind in for fear of a sway too” what, in Part III?

3. Where does Maginot Line say Pecola has gone when Claudia and Frieda come looking for her in Part IV?

4. Claudia’s mother sings a song about trains where in the beginning of Part IV?

5. What is Geraldine’s son called in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the conflict between Maureen, Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola escalate in “Winter”?

2. How are Pauline Williams’s early years described in “See Mother…”?

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator describe the blooming flowers and twigs in the opening of “Spring”?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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