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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 Part III is described as “thin, aging, absentminded, and unaggressive”?
(a) Poland.
(b) Miss Marie.
(c) China.
(d) Maginot Line.

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

3. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?
(a) He has died.
(b) He has become rich.
(c) He’s become President.
(d) He has left town.

4. Who does Cholly’s aunt say his father was in Part IV?
(a) “That Fuller boy.”
(b) “That Yacobowski boy.”
(c) “That MacTeer boy.”
(d) “That Peal boy.”

5. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maureen Peal said to have “even bought and liked” in Part III?

2. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?

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

4. The narrator in Part II describes the adults as treating illness in children with what?

5. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?

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