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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Audrey Hepburn.
(b) Marylin Monroe.
(c) Katherine Hepburn.
(d) Jane Withers.

2. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1944.

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

4. The author states in the book’s Foreword that in constructing the narrative she did not want to do what to "the characters who trashed Pecola and contributed to her collapse"?
(a) Dehumanize them.
(b) Make them into martyrs.
(c) Justify their actions.
(d) Make them seem human.

5. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?
(a) A friend.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?

3. 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?

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

5. Where is Pecola’s father when she goes to stay with the MacTeer family in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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