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

2. Where were Frieda’s parents when Mr. Henry “touched her” in Part IV?
(a) At the library.
(b) Weeding the garden.
(c) At church.
(d) Shopping.

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

4. Who had at one time been the idols of Geraldine’s son, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. MacTeer.
(b) Soaphead Church.
(c) Mr. Breelove.
(d) Bay Boy and P.L.

5. 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?
(a) “Capitalism.”
(b) “Bigotry.”
(c) “Murder.”
(d) “Passion.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?

2. Where did Cholly Breedlove first find work when he came to Lorain, Ohio?

3. 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?

4. Maureen tells Claudia, Pecola and Frieda that her uncle sued which ice cream company in Part III?

5. With what boy does Geraldine’s son play with, according to the narrator in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Cholly Breedlove’s childhood described in “See Father…”? Who raised Cholly?

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

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

4. How does the conflict between Maureen, Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola escalate in “Winter”?

5. What does Mr. Henry tell Claudia and Frieda about his unexpected guests in Part III? What do the girls do?

6. What leads to Claudia and Frieda buying snacks at Miss Bertha’s in Part III?

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

8. How are Pauline Williams’s early years described in “See Mother…”?

9. Where do Frieda and Claudia go to find Pecola after their exchange with Maginot Line in “Spring”? How is this setting described?

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

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