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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Abraham Lincoln School.
(b) Washington Irving School.
(c) Benjamin Franklin School.
(d) George Washington Irving School.

2. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?
(a) Yacobowski.
(b) Williams.
(c) Villanucci.
(d) MacTeer.

3. In describing Pecola’s mother in Part IV, the narrator says, “Holding Cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like” what?
(a) “A lamb.”
(b) “An ark.”
(c) “A gown.”
(d) “A cross.”

4. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?
(a) That the hatred is justified.
(b) That the hatred is accurate.
(c) That the hatred is not accurate.
(d) That the hatred is unjustified.

5. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Criminal behavior.”
(b) “Lust or despair.”
(c) “Immoral thinking.”
(d) “Evil and sadness.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?

2. In what magazine does Claudia imagine the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken reading in Part III?

3. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?

4. Frieda slams her books on whose head when she and Claudia encounter schoolboys taunting Pecola in Part III?

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

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