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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Pecola say the prostitute China is going to take her to see the square in Part IV?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Elyria.

2. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?
(a) “The bed.”
(b) “The kitchen sink.”
(c) “The couch.”
(d) “The coal stove.”

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

4. Who is described as a “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” during Aunt Jimmy’s illness in Part IV?
(a) M'Dear.
(b) Miss Forrester.
(c) Mrs. Dunion.
(d) Maginot Line.

5. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?
(a) The elderly.
(b) A female.
(c) A male.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frieda say her mother hit Mr. Henry with in Part IV?

2. How much milk does Mrs. MacTeer complain about having disappeared from her refrigerator overnight in Part II?

3. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “hold their behind in for fear of a sway too” what, in Part III?

4. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?

5. With what boy does Geraldine’s son play with, according to the narrator in Part III?

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