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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old does the narrator say she is in Part II?
(a) 15.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

2. Near what local coal company does the narrator say she sometimes goes in the evenings with grown-ups to fill burlap sacks with coal in Part II?
(a) Zick’s Coal Company.
(b) Murphy's Coal Company.
(c) Johnson's Coal Company.
(d) Howard’s Coal Company.

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

4. 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?
(a) That the hatred is justified.
(b) That the hatred is unjustified.
(c) That the hatred is accurate.
(d) That the hatred is not accurate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?

2. How old is the narrator’s sister in Part II?

3. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?

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

5. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?

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