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

2. Maureen tells Claudia, Pecola and Frieda that her uncle sued which ice cream company in Part III?
(a) Isaley’s.
(b) Breyer’s.
(c) Dove.
(d) Blue Bunny.

3. What is Geraldine’s husband’s name in the novel?
(a) Junior.
(b) Louis.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Henry.

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

5. Mr. Henry tells Claudia and Frieda that the prostitutes who just left were what in Part III?
(a) Spies for a foreign government.
(b) Undercover police women.
(c) Members of his Bible class.
(d) School teachers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In describing Pecola’s mother in Part IV, the narrator says, “Holding Cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like” what?

3. Where does Frieda say she’s going to get potato chips while Claudia goes to buy ice cream with the money Mr. Henry gave them in Part III?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What leads to Claudia and Frieda buying snacks at Miss Bertha’s in Part III?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What misunderstanding at the ice cream parlor contributes to the growing tension between Claudia and Maureen in “Winter”?

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