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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how much money do Claudia and Frieda sell their packets of seeds in Part V?
(a) 15 cents.
(b) 10 cents.
(c) 25 cents.
(d) 5 cents.

2. The narrator recalls a summer her mother knew in what year in Part V?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1924.

3. The narrator states in Part V, “Love is never any better than the” what?
(a) “Lover.”
(b) “Attitude.”
(c) “Situation.”
(d) “Marriage.”

4. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1958.

5. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) A child.
(b) An old man.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A new bride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?

2. What notion does the narrator refer to in Part IV as “Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”?

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

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

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

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