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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Part IV, “But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word” of whom?
(a) “The dreamer.”
(b) “The analyst.”
(c) “The subject.”
(d) “The waker.”

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?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Elyria.
(c) Meridian.
(d) Chicago.

3. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?
(a) Miss Erkmeister.
(b) Miss Cain.
(c) Miss Forrester.
(d) Miss Peal.

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) “Retired.”
(b) “Wild.”
(c) “Wide.”
(d) “Free.”

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 lamb.”
(c) “A cross.”
(d) “A gown.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Claudia and Frieda hope to get from Pecola in Part IV?

2. What does Mrs. MacTeer say “ate up” the prostitutes named China and Poland in Part IV?

3. How does Pecola’s mother describe Pecola when she was born in Part IV?

4. Where were Frieda’s parents when Mr. Henry “touched her” in Part IV?

5. Where did Cholly’s mother abandon him when he was four days old?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the perceptions of Claudia and Frieda as they wait to leave with Pecola from her mother’s workplace in “Spring”?

2. To whom do Claudia and Frieda turn in order to obtain whiskey in “Spring”? Why?

3. Why does Frieda tell Claudia has happened with Mr. Henry in the beginning of Part IV?

4. What are Claudia and Frieda’s feelings about Maureen Peal when she moves to Lorain in “Winter”?

5. “See the Cat…” begins with a discussion of what “types of girls”? Where are these individuals from?

6. How does Mrs. Breedlove respond when she finds the spilled cobbler in “Spring”?

7. How is Maureen Peal described when she is first introduced in “Winter”?

8. How does the narrator distinguish the difference between “colored girls” and “black girls” in “See the Cat…”?

9. How does the narrator describe the blooming flowers and twigs in the opening of “Spring”?

10. Who do Claudia and Frieda encounter leaving their house when they return from Miss Bertha’s store in Part III?

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