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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The Spanish hotel.”
(b) “The English hotel.”
(c) “The Greek hotel.”
(d) “The Polish hotel.”

2. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?
(a) Rosemary Villanucci.
(b) Frieda MacTeer.
(c) Pecola Breedlove.
(d) Maureen Peal.

3. 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"?
(a) “Victimized, or traumatized.”
(b) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(c) “Villain-ized or victimized.”
(d) “Disliked, even rejected.”

4. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1969.

5. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
(a) “How.”
(b) “Why.”
(c) “When.”
(d) “What.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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