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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

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1. Which of the following is a distinguishing characteristic of Pauline Breedlove?

(A) She has blue eyes

(B) She has a bad foot

(D) She is balding

2. Why does Pecola stay briefly with the MacTeers?

(A) Her father has raped her

(B) She has run away from home

(D) She is visiting her friends Claudia and Frieda

3. Who lives above the Breedloves' apartment?

(A) Three prostitutes

(B) Henry Washington

(D) The MacTeers

4. Where does Mrs. Breedlove work?

(A) At a restaurant

(B) At the local school

(D) At the MacTeers' home

5. What important event occurs when Pecola is staying with the Breedloves?

(A) She kills the family cat

(B) She is molested by Henry Washington

(D) She menstruates for the first time

6. Who hates white baby dolls?

(A) Frieda

(B) Claudia

(D) Maureen Peal

7. Who raises Cholly?

(A) Aunt Jimmy

(B) M'Dear

(D) Blue Jack

8. Which of the following characters is still alive when the story ends?

(A) Cholly

(B) Pecola's baby

(D) Aunt Jimmy

9. What flowers do Claudia and Frieda plant to save Pecola's baby?

(A) Roses

(B) Dandelions

(D) Lilacs

10. Where does most of the action in the novel take place?

(A) Princeton, Kentucky

(B) Crossville, Tennessee

(D) Lorain, Ohio

11. Which of the following DOES not happen to Pecola after her father rapes her?

(A) Her father rapes her a second time

(B) She runs away with a local man

(D) She goes mad

12. In what way is Pecola's wish for blue eyes fulfilled at the end of the story?

(A) She develops an eye disease that turns them blue

(B) She uses dye to make them blue and goes blind

(D) Everyone else tells her she has blue eyes

13. What happens when Cholly finds his father?

(A) He is frightened by his father's manner and runs away

(B) His father disowns him

(D) His father embraces him

14. What happens after Aunt Jimmy's funeral?

(A) Cholly beats up a younger boy

(B) Cholly has sex for the first time

(D) Cholly kills three white men

15. Who takes refuge in the movies?

(A) Claudia

(B) Pecola

(D) Sammy

16. What happens to Sammy at the end of the story?

(A) He runs away for good

(B) He attempts to kill his father

(D) He is beaten by his mother

17. Whose cat is Pecola blamed for killing?

(A) Mrs. MacTeer's

(B) The Maginot Line's

(D) Geraldine's

18. What is Pauline doing when she meets Cholly?

(A) Doing the laundry

(B) Standing in the garden

(D) Fighting with her first husband

19. Who temporarily befriends Pecola after Pecola is teased by a group of boys?

(A) Rosemary Villanucci

(B) Claudia MacTeer

(D) Maureen Peal

20. Why does Henry Washington send Claudia and Frieda out for ice cream?

(A) So that he can steal from Mrs. MacTeer

(B) So that he can drink all of Mrs. MacTeer's milk

(D) So that his Bible-study group can meet in peace

21. What kind of pets does Junior have?

(A) A cat and kittens

(B) A dog and puppies

(D) A duck and ducklings

22. What is peculiar about Maureen Peal's hands?

(A) There are only four fingers on each hand

(B) There are scars where she was burned as a child

(D) Her thumbs are double-jointed

23. Why does Mrs. Breedlove have a limp?

(A) She broke her hip when she fell down a flight of stairs

(B) She impaled her foot on a nail as a child

(D) She has arthritis in her right leg

24. What was the MacTeers' apartment formerly used as?

(A) A hospital clinic

(B) A storage room

(D) A store

25. What is Soaphead Church's occupation?

(A) A doctor

(B) A dream interpreter

(D) A scholar

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