1. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?
(a) Had seizures.
(b) Wet the bed.
(c) Sleepwalked.
(d) Had violent outbursts.

2. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1941.

3. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?
(a) “The coal stove.”
(b) “The kitchen sink.”
(c) “The bed.”
(d) “The couch.”

4. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?
(a) “Collective memory.”
(b) “Time.”
(c) “Justice.”
(d) “Disqualifying metaphors.”

5. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Miss Marie.
(b) Miss Delia Jones.
(c) Miss Poland.
(d) Miss Erkmeister.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?

2. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?

3. In what magazine does Claudia imagine the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken reading in Part III?

4. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?

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

(see the answer key)

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