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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) “No luck at all.”
(b) “No place to sprout.”
(c) “No time to bear fruit.”
(d) “No right to live.”

3. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?
(a) June Harver.
(b) Alice Faye.
(c) Ethel Merman.
(d) Betty Grable.

4. How does the narrator define “colored people” in Part III?
(a) “Quiet and dangerous.”
(b) “Loud and obnoxious.”
(c) “Sinful but pretty.”
(d) “Neat and quiet.”

5. Which movie does Maureen say the name Pecola is from in Part III?
(a) East of Eden.
(b) Imitation of Life.
(c) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
(d) Vertigo.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

2. The author writes in the novel's Foreword that when she began writing The Bluest Eye, she was interested in the "far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as" what?

3. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they study “music to soothe” whom in Part III?

4. The narrator says in Part V, “And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely” what?

5. What Alabama Governor famously tried to stop integration of Alabama’s schools in the 1960s?

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