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Question 1

Who wrote Recitatif?
  1. Toni Morrison
  2. Zana Fraillon
  3. Carol Ann Duffy
  4. Jane Austen

Question 2

How is Recitatif best described?
  1. As a short story
  2. As a novel
  3. As a play
  4. As an epic poem

Question 3

Recitatif is Morrison's only published example of what form?
  1. Short story
  2. Novel
  3. Memoir
  4. Poetry collection

Question 4

Who narrates Recitatif?
  1. Twyla
  2. Roberta
  3. Maggie
  4. Mary

Question 5

In Recitatif, who is Twyla's childhood friend in the story?
  1. Roberta
  2. Sheila
  3. Queeny
  4. Sybil

Question 6

In Recitatif, where do Twyla and Roberta first meet?
  1. St. Bonny's
  2. Howard Johnson's
  3. Newburgh High
  4. Soho

Question 7

In Recitatif, why are Twyla and Roberta at St. Bonny's?
  1. Their mothers cannot care for them
  2. They won a school trip
  3. They are training to teach
  4. They are visiting family

Question 8

In Recitatif, how does Twyla describe her mother Mary?
  1. She dances all night
  2. She works as a chef
  3. She is a police officer
  4. She studies law

Question 9

In Recitatif, how is Roberta's mother described?
  1. Sick
  2. A famous singer
  3. A headteacher
  4. A pilot

Question 10

In Recitatif, Maggie works in which part of St. Bonny's?
  1. The kitchen
  2. The library
  3. The infirmary
  4. The office

Question 11

In Recitatif, what is Maggie unable to do?
  1. Speak
  2. Read
  3. Walk
  4. Cook

Question 12

In Recitatif, what are the older girls at St. Bonny's called?
  1. Gar girls
  2. Night girls
  3. Chalk girls
  4. Hill girls

Question 13

As adults in Recitatif, what do Twyla and Roberta disagree most about?
  1. What happened to Maggie
  2. Who wrote a poem
  3. Who moved house first
  4. Which school won sports day

Question 14

In Recitatif, which major issue appears in their later protests?
  1. School busing and integration
  2. Rail ticket prices
  3. Factory wages
  4. Library opening hours

Question 15

In Recitatif, where does Twyla work when she meets Roberta again?
  1. Howard Johnson's
  2. St. Bonny's
  3. A police station
  4. A hospital ward

Question 16

In Recitatif, which musician are the two men with Roberta going to see?
  1. Jimi Hendrix
  2. Elvis Presley
  3. The Beatles
  4. Bob Dylan

Question 17

In Recitatif, what is a key technique Morrison uses?
  1. Leaves the girls' races ambiguous
  2. Names every race directly
  3. Uses only diary entries
  4. Writes in third-person omniscient

Question 18

In Recitatif, over what span does the story revisit Twyla and Roberta?
  1. Several meetings over many years
  2. One single afternoon
  3. Exactly three days
  4. A single school term

Question 19

In Recitatif, how is memory presented?
  1. Uncertain and contested
  2. Perfectly accurate
  3. Always objective
  4. Completely irrelevant

Question 20

At the end of Recitatif, what question are Twyla and Roberta left asking?
  1. What really happened to Maggie
  2. Who stole money
  3. Who wrote a letter
  4. Who changed schools first

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