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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 wheelbarrow.”
(d) “A wristwatch.”

2. 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”?
(a) Fred Astaire.
(b) Chuck E. White.
(c) Bojangles.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

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

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

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?
(a) “Their luck would change.”
(b) “God would save them.”
(c) “They did not deserve any better.”
(d) “They were ugly.”

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?

4. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

5. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?

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