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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives Aunt Jimmy the food that people believes kills her?
(a) Miss Julie.
(b) Mr. Yacobowski.
(c) Miss Forrester.
(d) Essie Foster.

2. What notion does the narrator refer to in Part IV as “Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”?
(a) Religious beliefs.
(b) Desire for money.
(c) Physical beauty.
(d) Racial inequality.

3. What (objectionable by today’s standards) term is used in the book to refer to persons classified as black who also have a high proportion of white ancestry?
(a) Pink.
(b) Tan.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Cream.

4. The narrator says in Part IV, “Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of” what?
(a) “Spankings.”
(b) “Swattings.”
(c) “Swattings.”
(d) “Switchings.”

5. What does the narrator claim Pecola soaked up from the world in Part V?
(a) Its beauty.
(b) Its hatred.
(c) Its humanity.
(d) Its ugliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Pecola, the narrator says in Part V, “Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own” what?

2. What is Geraldine’s husband’s name in the novel?

3. Where was Toni Morrison teaching when she began writing The Bluest Eye in a writing group?

4. What does Claudia say that the girls from places like Mobile and Aiken use to straighten their hair in Part III?

5. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?

(see the answer key)

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