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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. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Soaphead Church.
(b) Cholly Breedlove.
(c) Anderson Breedlove.
(d) Sammy Breedlove.

3. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The English hotel.”
(b) “The Spanish hotel.”
(c) “The Greek hotel.”
(d) “The Polish hotel.”

4. 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.

5. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?
(a) Pecola Breedlove.
(b) Maureen Peal.
(c) Rosemary Villanucci.
(d) Frieda MacTeer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?

2. Which movie does Maureen say the name Pecola is from in Part III?

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

4. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?

5. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?

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