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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?
(a) Brown.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

2. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

3. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
(a) “How.”
(b) “When.”
(c) “What.”
(d) “Why.”

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) MacTeer.
(b) Villanucci.
(c) Williams.
(d) Yacobowski.

5. 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 1939 Buick.
(c) A 1937 Cadillac.
(d) A 1932 Ford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?

2. 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?

3. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?

4. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?

5. The author describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who can be seen in Part I as characters that face trouble assimilating into “white society’s standards of beauty”?

2. Why does Pecola Breedlove come to live with the MacTeers in “Autumn”?

3. According to some critics, the three versions of the reader presented on the first page of The Bluest Eye represent three lifestyles presented in the novel. What does the second version represent?

4. For what reason does the Breedlove family stay in the apartment, according to the narrator in “Here is the House…”?

5. What is the primary setting for the novel? How is the author connected to this setting?

6. How is the MacTeer home described in “Autumn”? How are the relationships between the children and the adults characterized?

7. How are Claudia’s feelings about Shirley Temple and about baby dolls illustrated in “Autumn”?

8. How does the narrator compare the state of being “put out” with being “outdoors” in “Autumn”?

9. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in “Here is the Family…”? Why?

10. Who takes control of the situation when Pecola suddenly begins menstruating in Part II? How?

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