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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) Blue eyes.
(b) Food to eat.
(c) A new dress.
(d) A boyfriend.

2. What is Geraldine’s husband’s name in the novel?
(a) Junior.
(b) Henry.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Louis.

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

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “teacher education to instruct black children in” what?
(a) “Religion.”
(b) “Science.”
(c) “Mathematics.”
(d) “Obedience.”

5. The author writes in the novel's Foreword that when she began writing The Bluest Eye, she was interested in the "far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as" what?
(a) “Legitimate.”
(b) “Honorable.”
(c) “Inevitable.”
(d) “Beautiful.”

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. Claudia’s mother sings a song about trains where in the beginning of Part IV?

3. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?

4. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?

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