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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Claudia and Frieda promise to God to give up if Pecola’s baby lives in Part V?
(a) Their ball.
(b) Their bicycle.
(c) Their doll.
(d) Their roller skates.

2. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
(a) Blue and green.
(b) Green and gold.
(c) Gold and blue.
(d) Green and white.

3. Who came and said that Frieda’s father was going to jail, causing Frieda to punch her in Part IV?
(a) Maureen.
(b) Rosemary.
(c) Sally.
(d) Miss Buford.

4. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?
(a) Alice Faye.
(b) June Harver.
(c) Ethel Merman.
(d) Betty Grable.

5. Which teacher does Frieda say called Bay Boy “incorrigival” in Part III?
(a) Miss Julia.
(b) Miss Erkmeister.
(c) Miss Barkley.
(d) Miss Forrester.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the closing of Part V, the narrator claims, “Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had” what?

2. 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?

3. What is Maureen Peal said to have “even bought and liked” in Part III?

4. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?

5. The narrator recalls a summer her mother knew in what year in Part V?

(see the answer key)

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