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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much milk does Mrs. MacTeer complain about having disappeared from her refrigerator overnight in Part II?
(a) 3 gallons.
(b) 3 quarts.
(c) 2 quarts.
(d) 1 quart.

2. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?
(a) She cries.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She runs off.
(d) She screams.

3. The “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” tells Aunt Jimmy to drink nothing but what when she is ill in Part IV?
(a) Water.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Orange Juice.
(d) Pot liquor.

4. Who gives Aunt Jimmy the food that people believes kills her?
(a) Mr. Yacobowski.
(b) Essie Foster.
(c) Miss Julie.
(d) Miss Forrester.

5. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “learn how to do the white man's work with” what, in Part III?
(a) “Integrity.”
(b) “Honor.”
(c) “Refinement.”
(d) “Pleasure.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?

2. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?

3. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

4. What does the narrator say Aunt Jimmy died of in Part IV?

5. Many of the individual chapter titles in The Bluest Eye come from where?

(see the answer key)

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