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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?
(a) Had seizures.
(b) Had violent outbursts.
(c) Sleepwalked.
(d) Wet the bed.

2. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?
(a) Depressed about life.
(b) Having her father’s baby.
(c) Praying for bad weather.
(d) Planning to kill her father.

3. 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 advice.”
(b) “My help.”
(c) “My money.”
(d) “Me to die.”

4. What does Claudia say that the girls from places like Mobile and Aiken use to straighten their hair in Part III?
(a) Turnip juice.
(b) Dixie Peach.
(c) Cocnut oil.
(d) Alligator fat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?

2. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?

3. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?

4. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?

5. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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