Main Characters
What is Sammy Breedlove
Name the tenant in the MacTeers house
What is Mr.Henry
Why is Maureen Peal popular at the girls' school?
What is because she is light-skinned, rich and confident.
What kind of job does Pauline Breedlove do?
What is a maid at a white people's house
What kind of animal does Soaphead Church convince Percola to poison in exchange for her blue eyes?
What is a dog.
The MacTeers receive Pecola as their house guest and soon after she is ___________ for the first time.
What is menstruating
What kind of cold treat does Maureen say she will give Pecola?
What is ice cream
What is the name of Cholly's aunt that raised him?
What is Aunt Jimmy
What happens to Pecola's baby at the end of the novel?
What is she gives birth prematurely and it dies.
What is the nickname given to Pauline Breedlove by the little white girl she was looking after?
What is Polly
Frieda and Pecola bond over a famous white young girl, who even has a drink named after her
What is Shirley Temple
Pecola is invited to whose house to play? (mother and son's names)
What is Geraldine and Junior
Name the nickname given to Maureen Peal by the MacTeer sisters.
What is Meringue Pie
What did Claudia receive for Christmas that she ripped in parts because it was too perfect?
What is a white doll
What does Junior accuse Pecola of having done in his house?
What is hurting his mother's black cat
Where did Pauline and Cholly eventually move to? (also the main setting of the story city and state)
Who is Pecola discussing the rape incidents with?
What is herself.
Name the actual name of Soaphead Church
What is Elihue (Micah) Whitcomb
Who says the following quote?
"How do you do that? I mean how do you get someone to love you?"
Pecola Breedlove
Why do the boys pick on Pecola?
What is because of her race.
What was Cholly's reaction when Pauline told him she was pregnant and how did his behavior change?
What is he was pleased, drank less, & came home more often
What are a marigolds not blossoming a symbol of at the end of the novel?
What is community's lack of love, the destruction of innocence, and the extreme harm caused by racial self-hatred.