Bluest Eye Quizzes

Bluest Eye Quiz 1

1 The novel is divided into an untitled prelude and four sections. The four sections are named after
the four cardinal directions

the Four Winds in classical mythology

the four "sacred numbers"

the four seasons
2 The very first section of the novel, elements of which are used later as chapter headings, is a
a fairy tale about a princess with blue eyes

a short quotation from the Book of Job

a poem re-imagining The Aneid set in Ohio

passage from a grade school reading primer, repeated and altered
3 Claudia MacTeer, the novel's main narrator, is Pecola's
aunt

mother

sister

friend
4 Claudia tells us in the beginning of the novel that Pecola
is a free-spirited girl who taught all the women to stand up for themselves

was impregnated by her own father

had blue eyes

suffered under Jim Crowe laws
5 The date given in the prelude for the denouement of the novel's events is
1873

1965

1984

1941
6 The time of the novel's events ties the story to
the Reconstruction era and the legacy of slavery

World War II and White Supremacist ideas of beauty

the Vietnam war and the violence against the poor

Reagan's racism and his war against America's black poor
7 In the prelude, Claudia says that when facing the tragedy of Pecola, one
asks "how" and then, because "how" is too difficult to handle, asks "what"

asks "what" and then, because "what" is too difficult to handle, asks "where"

asks "when" and then, because "when" is too difficult to handle, asks "why"

asks "why" and then, because "why" is too difficult to handle, asks "how"
8 The above-mentioned question posed by Claudia in the prelude shows that
questions are meaningless and silly when dealing with issues of race

asking "what" is too painful, so one contents oneself with background information like "where"

philosophical questions like "why" might be impossible to handle, but a novel can dissect a social situation and an event, tackling the troubling question of "how"

humans all have total free will
9 Claudia's parents could best be described as
alcoholic and amusing

abusive and cruel

stern but loving

over-indulgent
10 The MacTeer family gets a new boarder named
Mr. Henry

Oedipa Maas

Cholly Breedlove

Baby Suggs
11 The second new boarder at the MacTeer home is
Maginot Line

Paul D

Pecola Breedlove

Clarissa Dalloway
12 The second and temporary boarder comes to stay with the MacTeers because
he is a drifter and needs a temporary place to stay

Mrs. MacTeer wants to reform the new boarder's wicked ways

her father, Cholly, hit her mother and tried to burn their house down

she is a distant relation and visiting town
13 The actress that everyone seems to adore and Claudia hates is
Shirley Temple

Audrey Hepburn

Marlene Dietrich

Marilyn Monroe
14 Claudia's violent dissection of the blond haired and blue-eyed dolls parallels
fantasies of violence stemming from Claudia's sublimated hatred for her mother

a terrorist attack on a bank in town that only served whites

the attack on Pearl Harbor

the work of the novel, which examines and deconstructs social constructions of beauty and the source of black self-loathing
15 Pecola drinks too much of the MacTeer's milk because
she is so fond of drinking from the little cup that has Shirley Temple's face on it

the MacTeers' milk is very special and has a great taste

her mother is lactose intolerant and so she never gets milk

milk is her favorite drink
16 When the girls are outside, Pecola notices that she
is truly beautiful

is shorter than Claudia

is bleeding between her legs

is bleeding out of her nose
17 Pecola's bewilderment at her own first menstruation shows
how stupid she is

the failure of the school's sex education program

a child's joy at discovering new things

the gap between her mother's detachment and Mrs. MacTeer's closeness to Claudia and Frieda
18 Pecola's first menstruation is ominous because
it comes on the day that World War II begins in Europe

both we know that it makes it possible for her father to later impregnate her and the event is met initially with misunderstanding and even anger

the event is met initially with misunderstanding and even anger

we know that it makes it possible for her father to later impregnate her
19 The Breedlove's house is best described as being
a real fixer-up-er

cold, poor, and devoid of love

warm and loving

enormous but without love
20 The relationship between Cholly and Pauline Breedlove could be best described as
violent and characterized by strange co-dependence

full of good humor but somewhat frivolous

ruined by hard drugs

warm and loving
21 The three women who live upstairs from the Breedloves work as
choirgirls

meat packers

prostitutes

housekeepers
22 The names of China, Poland, and Marie (aka the Maginot Line) refer to
the countries of their origin, reminding us of America's melting pot

settings for the great novels of Victor Hugo, linking Morrison to the French literary tradition

countries that were invaded by fascists around the time of the novel's events, linking the story and the America in which it is set to the Aryan ideal of beauty

all of the above
23 Pecola want to have blue eyes so that
people will look at her and think she is beautiful, and so her life will change

she can work in a carnival

she can look like a cat

she can move to New York and be a fashion model
24 The white shopkeeper's attitude towards Pecola could best be described as
angry and violent

disdainful and distant

warm and loving

compassionate but condescending
25 Eyes and eyesight are important symbols throughout the novel of
the power of the human will

the pain of the past and the legacy of slavery

subjectivity (meaning, sentience and status as a person and not an object) and the ability to recognize the subjectivity of others

Hitler's medical experiments to make a race with super-vision

which characters are still alive when the bluest eye ends?

Claudia, Frieda, Pauline, Pecola and Cholly are the main characters still alive at the end of the story.

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 5/13/2015 3:35 PM

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Bluest eyes

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Why does pecola enter Junior's house and what is her first impression of it?

Lured by the promise of a new kitten, Pecola follows him. Pecola is mystified by the size and beauty of the house, the clean furniture, the bits of decoration and evidence of care.

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