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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 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) Meridian.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Elyria.

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

3. Which of the prostitutes with Mr. Henry in Part III is described as “the one church women never allowed their eyes to rest on”?
(a) Miss Bertha.
(b) China.
(c) Maginot Line.
(d) Poland.

4. 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 waker.”
(d) “The subject.”

5. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?
(a) “Melt.”
(b) “Erupt.”
(c) “Avalanche.”
(d) “Explode.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who had at one time been the idols of Geraldine’s son, according to the narrator in Part III?

3. In speaking of Cholly, Mrs. Breedlove says in Part IV, “I started to leave him once, but something came up. Once, after he tried to” do what?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Geraldine’s family described in “See the Cat…”? Upon what does Geraldine focus her affection?

3. What are Pauline Breedlove’s feelings about motherhood, according to the narrator in “See Mother…”?

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

5. How does the fresh cobbler come to be spilled in “Spring”? Who spills it?

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

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

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

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

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

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