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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Cholly Breedlove die, according to the narrator in Part V?
(a) The movie theater.
(b) The barber shop.
(c) The workhouse.
(d) The train station.

2. 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) 1944.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1938.

3. How does Pecola’s mother describe Pecola when she was born in Part IV?
(a) Chubby.
(b) Cranky.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Ugly.

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?
(a) “The proud parents.”
(b) “The weary master.”
(c) “Newborn babies.”
(d) “The elderly.”

5. 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) Over-watered them.
(b) Planted them too deep.
(c) Under-watered them.
(d) Planted them too shallow.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?

2. How many years of school did Pauline Williams attend?

3. Who came and said that Frieda’s father was going to jail, causing Frieda to punch her in Part IV?

4. In speaking of Pecola in Part V, the narrator says, “We tried to see her without looking at her, and never, never went near. Not because she was absurd, or repulsive, or because we were frightened, but because we had” what?

5. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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