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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in Part III, Geraldine did not allow her son to do what?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Yell.
(c) Cry.
(d) Eat.

3. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?
(a) Under-watered them.
(b) Planted them too shallow.
(c) Over-watered them.
(d) Planted them too deep.

4. 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) “Red Rover.”
(d) “King of the Mountain.”

5. What did Frieda’s father throw at Mr. Henry, knocking him off the porch, in Part IV?
(a) A chair.
(b) A glass bowl.
(c) An axe.
(d) A tricycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the names of Pauline Williams’s parents?

2. 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”?

3. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?

4. How does the narrator define “colored people” in Part III?

5. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?

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