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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as “still trotting up and down Sixteenth Street talking to herself” in Part II?
(a) Auntie Julia.
(b) Miss Forrester.
(c) Baby Jenny.
(d) Miss Bertha.

2. What is Geraldine’s son called in Part III?
(a) J.C.
(b) Sammy.
(c) Junior.
(d) Paul.

3. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?
(a) “The infinite sky.”
(b) “The savage animals.”
(c) “The unyielding earth.”
(d) “The sands of time.”

4. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?
(a) “Villain-ized or victimized.”
(b) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(c) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(d) “Victimized, or traumatized.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?

2. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?

3. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “learn how to do the white man's work with” what, in Part III?

4. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?

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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