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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?
(a) Cry.
(b) Eat.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Yell.

2. The narrative of The Bluest Eye is set during what decade?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1910s.

3. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
(a) Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) Columbus, Ohio.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Lorain, Ohio.

4. Who came running out with his gun during the conflict with Mr. Henry in Part IV?
(a) Mr. Yacobowski.
(b) Mr. Villanucci.
(c) Mr. Henry.
(d) Mr. Buford.

5. What nickname do Claudia and Frieda call Maureen Peal in Part III?
(a) Meringue Pie.
(b) Molasses Syrup.
(c) Banana Peel.
(d) Mary Anne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Toni Morrison teaching when she began writing The Bluest Eye in a writing group?

2. What does the narrator say Aunt Jimmy died of in Part IV?

3. The “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” tells Aunt Jimmy to drink nothing but what when she is ill in Part IV?

4. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?

5. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?

(see the answer key)

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