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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1944.

2. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?
(a) Elyria.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Lorain.
(d) Meridian.

3. What does the little girl call Mrs. Breedlove at the house where Mrs. Breedlove works in Part IV?
(a) Holly.
(b) Molly.
(c) Sally.
(d) Polly.

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they acquire skills in order to get rid of “the funkiness” of what?
(a) “Passion.”
(b) “Bigotry.”
(c) “Capitalism.”
(d) “Murder.”

5. Maureen tells Claudia, Pecola and Frieda that her uncle sued which ice cream company in Part III?
(a) Isaley’s.
(b) Blue Bunny.
(c) Dove.
(d) Breyer’s.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?

4. Where did Cholly Breedlove die, according to the narrator in Part V?

5. Frieda and Claudia discover the Pecola has become impregnated by whom in Part V?

(see the answer key)

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