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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator define “colored people” in Part III?
(a) “Loud and obnoxious.”
(b) “Sinful but pretty.”
(c) “Quiet and dangerous.”
(d) “Neat and quiet.”

2. Which of the prostitutes in Part III is described as “thin, aging, absentminded, and unaggressive”?
(a) Miss Marie.
(b) Maginot Line.
(c) China.
(d) Poland.

3. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?
(a) Cry.
(b) Eat.
(c) Yell.
(d) Sleep.

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

5. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?
(a) “Science.”
(b) “Religion.”
(c) “Mathematics.”
(d) “Obedience.”

6. Where does Pecola say the prostitute Poland is going to take her to see the Loop in Part IV?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Meridian.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Elyria.

7. Where did Cholly’s mother abandon him when he was four days old?
(a) By church steps.
(b) At the hospital.
(c) At an orphanage.
(d) By the railroad.

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

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

10. The narrator refers to her father in Part III as a “wolf killer turned” what?
(a) “Trout slayer.”
(b) “Hawk fighter.”
(c) “Pika trapper.”
(d) “Deer hunter.”

11. Mr. Henry tells Claudia and Frieda that the prostitutes who just left were what in Part III?
(a) Undercover police women.
(b) Members of his Bible class.
(c) Spies for a foreign government.
(d) School teachers.

12. What were the names of Pauline Williams’s parents?
(a) Ada and Fowler Williams.
(b) Connie and Franklin Williams.
(c) Beth and Forrest Williams.
(d) Pauline and Frederick Williams.

13. 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) Miss Buford.
(d) Sally.

14. What does the narrator say Aunt Jimmy died of in Part IV?
(a) Drinking whiskey.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Peach cobbler.
(d) Brain cancer.

15. Who came running out with his gun during the conflict with Mr. Henry in Part IV?
(a) Mr. Henry.
(b) Mr. Yacobowski.
(c) Mr. Buford.
(d) Mr. Villanucci.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?

2. The sound of what town’s name “opens the windows of a room like the first four notes of a hymn,” according to Claudia in Part III?

3. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they acquire skills in order to get rid of “the funkiness” of what?

5. Pauline Williams was one of how many children in her family?

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