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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who calls Mrs. MacTeer and tells her that Claudia, Pecola and Frieda are “playing nasty” in Part II?
(a) Paula Williams.
(b) Miss Dunion.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Ada Williams.

2. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Woodrow Cain.
(b) Miss Dunion.
(c) Mr. Buford.
(d) Mr. Yacobowski.

3. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?
(a) A friend.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

4. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?
(a) Williams.
(b) MacTeer.
(c) Villanucci.
(d) Yacobowski.

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

6. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The Greek hotel.”
(b) “The Spanish hotel.”
(c) “The Polish hotel.”
(d) “The English hotel.”

7. What kind of car is Rosemary sitting in while she eats bread and butter in the beginning of Part II?
(a) A 1930 Chevrolet.
(b) A 1937 Cadillac.
(c) A 1939 Buick.
(d) A 1932 Ford.

8. Where is Pecola’s father when she goes to stay with the MacTeer family in Part II?
(a) In the hospital.
(b) In Europe.
(c) In Mexico.
(d) In jail.

9. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?
(a) Yacobowski.
(b) Dunion.
(c) Washington.
(d) Whitcomb.

10. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?
(a) “Weathered and angry.”
(b) “Skinny and feeble.”
(c) “Old and senile.”
(d) “Big and strong.”

11. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?
(a) Maureen Peal.
(b) Rosemary Villanucci.
(c) Frieda MacTeer.
(d) Pecola Breedlove.

12. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?
(a) “Victimized, or traumatized.”
(b) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(c) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(d) “Villain-ized or victimized.”

13. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Cleveland, Ohio.
(c) Lorain, Ohio.
(d) Columbus, Ohio.

14. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?
(a) Mildred.
(b) Sammy.
(c) Pecola.
(d) Claudia.

15. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “A series of bad choices.”
(b) “The poorest of luck.”
(c) “Societal pressures.”
(d) “A crippled and crippling family.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?

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

3. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?

4. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?

5. Who is described as “still trotting up and down Sixteenth Street talking to herself” in Part II?

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