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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Alabama Governor famously tried to stop integration of Alabama’s schools in the 1960s?
(a) James Folsom.
(b) Bibb Graves.
(c) Rufus Cobb.
(d) George Wallace.

2. Pecola believes that people in the town won’t look at her because of what in Part V?
(a) Her ugliness.
(b) Her illiteracy.
(c) Her pregnancy.
(d) Her blue eyes.

3. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) An old woman.
(b) A child.
(c) An old man.
(d) A new bride.

4. Where does Frieda say she’s going to get potato chips while Claudia goes to buy ice cream with the money Mr. Henry gave them in Part III?
(a) Miss Forrester's.
(b) Miss Julie's.
(c) Miss Bertha's.
(d) Miss Erkmeister’s.

5. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?
(a) That the hatred is justified.
(b) That the hatred is not accurate.
(c) That the hatred is unjustified.
(d) That the hatred is accurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?

2. How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?

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

4. In speaking of Pecola in Part V, the narrator says, “We tried to see her without looking at her, and never, never went near. Not because she was absurd, or repulsive, or because we were frightened, but because we had” what?

5. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?

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