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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a central theme in The Bluest Eye?
(a) The perception of beauty.
(b) The supremacy of nature.
(c) Christian redemption.
(d) The power of motherhood.

2. With what boy does Geraldine’s son play with, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Bay Boy.
(b) Joey Robinson.
(c) Max Sidewell.
(d) Ralph Nisensky.

3. For how much money do Claudia and Frieda sell their packets of seeds in Part V?
(a) 15 cents.
(b) 25 cents.
(c) 10 cents.
(d) 5 cents.

4. The narrator says in Part V of the flowers that never grew, “I was convinced that Frieda was right, that I had planted them too” what?
(a) “Shady.”
(b) “Sunny.”
(c) “Shallow.”
(d) “Deeply.”

5. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Adoring them.
(b) Playing dress-up with them.
(c) Dismembering them.
(d) Playing house with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Pauline Williams’s family move after World War I for the mines and millwork?

2. What is Geraldine’s son called in Part III?

3. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?

4. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?

5. Where is Pecola’s father when she goes to stay with the MacTeer family in Part II?

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