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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator claim Pecola soaked up from the world in Part V?
(a) Its beauty.
(b) Its humanity.
(c) Its hatred.
(d) Its ugliness.

2. Where was Toni Morrison teaching when she began writing The Bluest Eye in a writing group?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Howard University.
(c) Brown University.
(d) Yale University.

3. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Dismembering them.
(b) Playing dress-up with them.
(c) Adoring them.
(d) Playing house with them.

4. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Lust or despair.”
(b) “Evil and sadness.”
(c) “Criminal behavior.”
(d) “Immoral thinking.”

5. In what year did the assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers take place?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1959.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Pauline Williams’s family move after World War I for the mines and millwork?

2. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?

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

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

5. Claudia and Frieda had waited since what month for the arrival of their seeds in Part V?

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