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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?
(a) Rosemary Villanucci.
(b) Pecola Breedlove.
(c) Frieda MacTeer.
(d) Maureen Peal.

2. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?
(a) Jane Withers.
(b) Audrey Hepburn.
(c) Katherine Hepburn.
(d) Marylin Monroe.

3. What does Claudia say that the girls from places like Mobile and Aiken use to straighten their hair in Part III?
(a) Cocnut oil.
(b) Alligator fat.
(c) Dixie Peach.
(d) Turnip juice.

4. The author describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?
(a) Psychological rape.
(b) Physical burglary.
(c) Physical arson.
(d) Psychological murder.

5. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “A series of bad choices.”
(b) “Societal pressures.”
(c) “The poorest of luck.”
(d) “A crippled and crippling family.”

Short Answer Questions

1. With what boy does Geraldine’s son play with, according to the narrator in Part III?

2. Who is described as a “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” during Aunt Jimmy’s illness in Part IV?

3. What do Claudia and Frieda hope to get from Pecola in Part IV?

4. When describing the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken, Claudia says in Part III, “They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex” what?

5. In the closing of Part V, the narrator claims, “Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had” what?

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