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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) Rufus Cobb.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) James Folsom.
(d) Bibb Graves.

2. The narrative of The Bluest Eye is set during what decade?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1930s.

3. 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) Katherine Hepburn.
(b) Audrey Hepburn.
(c) Marylin Monroe.
(d) Jane Withers.

4. Where did Cholly Breedlove’s father live after he left town when Cholly was born?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Denver, Colorado.
(c) Cleveland, Ohio.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Maginot Line say Pecola has gone when Claudia and Frieda come looking for her in Part IV?

2. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?

3. Pecola believes that people in the town won’t look at her because of what in Part V?

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

5. What happens to Pecola’s baby in Part V?

(see the answer key)

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