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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) “Chess.”
(b) “Tag.”
(c) “King of the Mountain.”
(d) “Red Rover.”

2. 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?
(a) Murphy's Coal Company.
(b) Zick’s Coal Company.
(c) Howard’s Coal Company.
(d) Johnson's Coal Company.

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

4. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?
(a) Villanucci.
(b) MacTeer.
(c) Williams.
(d) Yacobowski.

5. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?
(a) Vowels.
(b) Consonants.
(c) Punctuation.
(d) Spacing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?

2. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

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. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?

5. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?

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