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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?
(a) Marylin Monroe.
(b) Jane Withers.
(c) Katherine Hepburn.
(d) Audrey Hepburn.

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

3. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
(a) 6.
(b) 14.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

4. Mrs. MacTeer exclaims during her diatribe in Part II, “I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with” what?
(a) “A wristwatch.”
(b) “A wheelbarrow.”
(c) “Side pockets.”
(d) “A top hat.”

5. Whose image is on the milk cup that Frieda brings to Pecola in Part II?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt’s.
(b) Henry Ford's.
(c) Shirley Temple’s.
(d) B.B. King's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?

3. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

4. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?

5. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?

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