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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Pecola’s baby in Part V?
(a) She gives it up for adoption.
(b) She abandons it on the railroad tracks.
(c) He grows up to become a senator.
(d) It is born prematurely and dies.

2. Pecola’s idealization for white beauty is illustrated in the novel through her love of what movie star?
(a) Vanessa Redgrave.
(b) Shirley Temple.
(c) Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Betty Grable.

3. The narrator states in Part II, “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed” what?
(a) “They were ugly.”
(b) “Their luck would change.”
(c) “God would save them.”
(d) “They did not deserve any better.”

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

5. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?
(a) Sammy.
(b) Woodrow.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Part V, “And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely” what?

2. What notion does the narrator refer to in Part IV as “Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”?

3. The narrator refers to her father in Part III as a “wolf killer turned” what?

4. In what year did the assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers take place?

5. What (objectionable by today’s standards) term is used in the book to refer to persons classified as black who also have a high proportion of white ancestry?

(see the answer key)

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