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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “The poorest of luck.”
(b) “A series of bad choices.”
(c) “A crippled and crippling family.”
(d) “Societal pressures.”

2. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?
(a) White shirts and pencils.
(b) Plaid skirts and vitamins.
(c) Brown stockings and cod liver oil.
(d) Black shoes and books.

3. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?
(a) “Arms.”
(b) “A stomach.”
(c) “A brain.”
(d) “Legs.”

4. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She cries.
(c) She screams.
(d) She runs off.

5. Whose image is on the milk cup that Frieda brings to Pecola in Part II?
(a) Henry Ford's.
(b) B.B. King's.
(c) Shirley Temple’s.
(d) Teddy Roosevelt’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?

2. What does Pecola’s mother demand that Pecola’s father get out of bed and go get for her in their argument in Part II?

3. 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?

4. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?

5. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?

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