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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in the novel's Foreword that when she began writing The Bluest Eye, she was interested in the "far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as" what?
(a) “Legitimate.”
(b) “Beautiful.”
(c) “Honorable.”
(d) “Inevitable.”

2. In what magazine does Claudia imagine the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken reading in Part III?
(a) The Liberty Magazine.
(b) The Freedom Magazine.
(c) The Justice Magazine.
(d) The Equality Magazine.

3. Mr. Henry tells Claudia and Frieda that the prostitutes who just left were what in Part III?
(a) Members of his Bible class.
(b) Undercover police women.
(c) Spies for a foreign government.
(d) School teachers.

4. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

5. On what street had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Second Street.
(b) Thirteenth Street.
(c) Eighth Street.
(d) Fifth Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?

2. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?

3. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?

4. What is Maureen Peal said to have “even bought and liked” in Part III?

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?

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