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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?
(a) “Poor white people.”
(b) “Rich white people.”
(c) “Propertied black people.”
(d) “Poor Hispanic people.”

3. What is Maureen Peal said to have “even bought and liked” in Part III?
(a) White flour.
(b) White bread.
(c) White milk.
(d) White rice.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator’s sister in Part II?

2. The four major sections of the book are named for what?

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

4. What did Frieda’s father throw at Mr. Henry, knocking him off the porch, in Part IV?

5. What happens to Pecola’s baby in Part V?

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