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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maureen tells Claudia, Pecola and Frieda that her uncle sued which ice cream company in Part III?
(a) Dove.
(b) Blue Bunny.
(c) Breyer’s.
(d) Isaley’s.

2. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Adoring them.
(b) Playing house with them.
(c) Dismembering them.
(d) Playing dress-up with them.

3. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?
(a) Every noun.
(b) Every other word.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Punctuation and capitalization.

4. The author states in the book’s Foreword that in constructing the narrative she did not want to do what to "the characters who trashed Pecola and contributed to her collapse"?
(a) Dehumanize them.
(b) Make them seem human.
(c) Make them into martyrs.
(d) Justify their actions.

5. Which movie does Maureen say the name Pecola is from in Part III?
(a) Imitation of Life.
(b) East of Eden.
(c) Vertigo.
(d) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?

2. Frieda slams her books on whose head when she and Claudia encounter schoolboys taunting Pecola in Part III?

3. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

4. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

5. The author describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?

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