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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?
(a) Ethel Merman.
(b) June Harver.
(c) Alice Faye.
(d) Betty Grable.

3. What does Pecola’s mother demand that Pecola’s father get out of bed and go get for her in their argument in Part II?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Flour.
(c) Milk.
(d) Coal.

4. What does Claudia say that the girls from places like Mobile and Aiken use to straighten their hair in Part III?
(a) Turnip juice.
(b) Alligator fat.
(c) Dixie Peach.
(d) Cocnut oil.

5. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?
(a) Lorain.
(b) Meridian.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Elyria.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author writes in the novel's Foreword that when she began writing The Bluest Eye, she was interested in the "far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as" what?

3. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?

4. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?

5. What is Maureen Peal said to have “even bought and liked” in Part III?

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