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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the baby twin siblings of Pauline Williams called, according to the narrator in Part IV?
(a) Chicken and Pie.
(b) Fish and chips.
(c) Coffee and muffins.
(d) Biscuits and Gravy.

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

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

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “hold their behind in for fear of a sway too” what, in Part III?
(a) “Wide.”
(b) “Retired.”
(c) “Free.”
(d) “Wild.”

5. 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) “An ark.”
(b) “A cross.”
(c) “A gown.”
(d) “A lamb.”

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

7. Claudia says in Part III that she and Frieda always did their “Candy Dance” under the lilac bushes on the side of the house so that who would see and become jealous?
(a) M’Dear.
(b) Polly.
(c) Pecola.
(d) Rosemary.

8. Frieda slams her books on whose head when she and Claudia encounter schoolboys taunting Pecola in Part III?
(a) P.L.'s.
(b) Bay Boy's.
(c) Woodrow Cain’s.
(d) Dick's.

9. What lake is near where Claudia and Frieda live in the novel?
(a) Lake Superior.
(b) Lake Huron.
(c) Lake Michigan.
(d) Lake Erie.

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

11. 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?
(a) “Integrity.”
(b) “Honor.”
(c) “Pleasure.”
(d) “Refinement.”

12. How many years of school did Pauline Williams attend?
(a) 9.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

13. Who does Cholly’s aunt say his father was in Part IV?
(a) “That Fuller boy.”
(b) “That Yacobowski boy.”
(c) “That MacTeer boy.”
(d) “That Peal boy.”

14. The narrator says in Part IV, “Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of” what?
(a) “Swattings.”
(b) “Switchings.”
(c) “Swattings.”
(d) “Spankings.”

15. What did Frieda’s father throw at Mr. Henry, knocking him off the porch, in Part IV?
(a) A chair.
(b) A tricycle.
(c) A glass bowl.
(d) An axe.

Short Answer Questions

1. The “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” tells Aunt Jimmy to drink nothing but what when she is ill in Part IV?

2. Which of the prostitutes in Part III is described as “thin, aging, absentminded, and unaggressive”?

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

4. What nickname do Claudia and Frieda call Maureen Peal in Part III?

5. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?

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