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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?
(a) A female.
(b) Children.
(c) A male.
(d) The elderly.

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

3. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Dismembering them.
(b) Adoring them.
(c) Playing house with them.
(d) Playing dress-up with them.

4. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

5. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) A boyfriend.
(b) Food to eat.
(c) A new dress.
(d) Blue eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?

2. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?

3. 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?

4. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?

5. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?

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