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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) “Beautiful.”
(b) “Honorable.”
(c) “Inevitable.”
(d) “Legitimate.”

2. 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) “Refinement.”
(c) “Pleasure.”
(d) “Honor.”

3. Mrs. MacTeer exclaims during her diatribe in Part II, “I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with” what?
(a) “Side pockets.”
(b) “A top hat.”
(c) “A wristwatch.”
(d) “A wheelbarrow.”

4. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
(a) Blue and green.
(b) Green and white.
(c) Green and gold.
(d) Gold and blue.

5. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?
(a) Woodrow.
(b) Henry.
(c) Sammy.
(d) Fowler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Cholly Breedlove die, according to the narrator in Part V?

2. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?

3. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?

4. The narrator recalls a summer her mother knew in what year in Part V?

5. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?

(see the answer key)

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