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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?
(a) Audrey Hepburn.
(b) Katherine Hepburn.
(c) Jane Withers.
(d) Marylin Monroe.

2. The narrator states in Part V, “Love is never any better than the” what?
(a) “Situation.”
(b) “Marriage.”
(c) “Attitude.”
(d) “Lover.”

3. How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?
(a) She fell down the stairs.
(b) A dog bit her.
(c) She kicked a door.
(d) She stepped on a rusty nail.

4. What do Claudia and Frieda promise to God to give up if Pecola’s baby lives in Part V?
(a) Their ball.
(b) Their doll.
(c) Their roller skates.
(d) Their bicycle.

5. The author states in the Foreword, “In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause I chose a unique situation, not" what?
(a) “A representative one.”
(b) “A classic one.”
(c) “A realistic one.”
(d) “An imaginative one.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?

2. Where did Cholly Breedlove’s father live after he left town when Cholly was born?

3. What has happened to Pecola’s brother at the end of the novel?

4. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?

5. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?

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