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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator define “colored people” in Part III?
(a) “Neat and quiet.”
(b) “Sinful but pretty.”
(c) “Quiet and dangerous.”
(d) “Loud and obnoxious.”

3. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?
(a) Freckles.
(b) Green eyes.
(c) Blond hair.
(d) Blue eyes.

4. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Washington Irving School.
(b) Benjamin Franklin School.
(c) Abraham Lincoln School.
(d) George Washington Irving School.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator states in Part II, “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed” what?

3. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?

4. Which movie does Maureen say the name Pecola is from in Part III?

5. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?

(see the answer key)

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