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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
(a) Blue and green.
(b) Green and gold.
(c) Green and white.
(d) Gold and blue.

2. What is Geraldine’s son called in Part III?
(a) Sammy.
(b) Junior.
(c) Paul.
(d) J.C.

3. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Orange.
(d) Green.

4. Where does Frieda say she’s going to get potato chips while Claudia goes to buy ice cream with the money Mr. Henry gave them in Part III?
(a) Miss Forrester's.
(b) Miss Bertha's.
(c) Miss Julie's.
(d) Miss Erkmeister’s.

5. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?
(a) Wet the bed.
(b) Had violent outbursts.
(c) Had seizures.
(d) Sleepwalked.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “hold their behind in for fear of a sway too” what, in Part III?

3. 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?

4. Which teacher does Frieda say called Bay Boy “incorrigival” in Part III?

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?

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