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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

3. 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) “Honorable.”
(b) “Inevitable.”
(c) “Beautiful.”
(d) “Legitimate.”

4. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
(a) Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) Columbus, Ohio.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Lorain, Ohio.

5. How much milk does Mrs. MacTeer complain about having disappeared from her refrigerator overnight in Part II?
(a) 3 quarts.
(b) 1 quart.
(c) 2 quarts.
(d) 3 gallons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near what local coal company does the narrator say she sometimes goes in the evenings with grown-ups to fill burlap sacks with coal in Part II?

2. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?

3. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?

4. Mrs. MacTeer exclaims during her diatribe in Part II, “I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with” what?

5. Who is described as “still trotting up and down Sixteenth Street talking to herself” in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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