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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
2. 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?
3. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
4. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
5. The narrator states in Part II, “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in “Here is the Family…”? Why?
2. What do Claudia and Frieda receive at the beginning of the school year in “Autumn”? What conversation consumes “the grownups” in the opening of this chapter?
3. What does the narrator discuss regarding property-owning black families and their motivations in “Autumn”?
4. What important symbolic images are presented in the opening “Dick and Jane” reader and the preface in Part I?
5. How does the narrator compare the state of being “put out” with being “outdoors” in “Autumn”?
6. For what reason does the Breedlove family stay in the apartment, according to the narrator in “Here is the House…”?
7. 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 first version represent?
8. How did author Toni Morrison perceive the Civil Rights Movement’s slogan “Black is Beautiful”? How is this seen in the novel?
9. Is the setting of the novel focused on a specific societal group, or is the setting inclusive of different racial groups?
10. What commotion begins when Rosemary “tattles” on Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola for “being nasty” in “Autumn”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze the style, tone, and language used in the opening “Dick and Jane” story. How does the story change in each of the retellings? What is symbolic about the changes in the story’s language and style? Do you think the author intends for the reader to examine race as an undercurrent in the story? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and analyze the author’s choice of character names in the novel. What do you think the significance is of names like “Breedlove,” “MacTeer,” and “Fisher,” among others? Do you think these names were chosen for a specific reason? If so, what reason?
Essay Topic 3
Define the term “foreshadowing,” and discuss different reasons that an author may choose to use foreshadowing in his/her narrative. In what ways does foreshadowing develop suspense? What foreshadowing is presented in Part I of The Bluest Eye? How does the author’s use of foreshadowing here affect the reader?
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