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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 describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?
(a) Psychological murder.
(b) Physical arson.
(c) Physical burglary.
(d) Psychological rape.

2. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III that they go to what kind of colleges?
(a) Ivory League colleges.
(b) Community colleges.
(c) Land-grant colleges.
(d) Ivy League colleges.

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

4. How old does the narrator say she is in Part II?
(a) 15.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

5. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III, “They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex” what?
(a) “Fornicating.”
(b) “Layin’ Down.”
(c) “The horizontal hustle.”
(d) “Nookey.”

Short Answer Questions

1. With what animal does Geraldine’s son torment Pecola in Part III?

2. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?

3. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “learn how to do the white man's work with” what, in Part III?

5. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?

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