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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the prostitutes in town does Mrs. MacTeer say is a “ruined” woman?
(a) Miss Delia Jones.
(b) Maginot Line.
(c) Miss Forrester.
(d) Miss Julia.

2. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?
(a) “The kitchen sink.”
(b) “The couch.”
(c) “The coal stove.”
(d) “The bed.”

3. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?
(a) White shirts and pencils.
(b) Plaid skirts and vitamins.
(c) Brown stockings and cod liver oil.
(d) Black shoes and books.

4. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1958.

5. Which of the prostitutes with Mr. Henry in Part III is described as “the one church women never allowed their eyes to rest on”?
(a) Poland.
(b) Maginot Line.
(c) China.
(d) Miss Bertha.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?

2. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?

3. In what magazine does Claudia imagine the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken reading in Part III?

4. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?

5. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?

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