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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the baby twin siblings of Pauline Williams called, according to the narrator in Part IV?
(a) Coffee and muffins.
(b) Biscuits and Gravy.
(c) Fish and chips.
(d) Chicken and Pie.

2. Who calls Mrs. MacTeer and tells her that Claudia, Pecola and Frieda are “playing nasty” in Part II?
(a) Ada Williams.
(b) Paula Williams.
(c) Miss Dunion.
(d) Rosemary.

3. 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.

4. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?
(a) He makes his thumb disappear.
(b) He pulls a rabbit from a hat.
(c) He makes a penny disappear.
(d) He saws a lady in half.

5. The author states in the Foreword, “In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause I chose a unique situation, not" what?
(a) “An imaginative one.”
(b) “A representative one.”
(c) “A classic one.”
(d) “A realistic one.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “learn how to do the white man's work with” what, in Part III?

2. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?

3. What does the little girl call Mrs. Breedlove at the house where Mrs. Breedlove works in Part IV?

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

5. What does Pecola’s mother demand that Pecola’s father get out of bed and go get for her in their argument in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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