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Bluest Eye Quiz 1

  • 1. The novel is divided into an untitled prelude and four sections. The four sections are named after
    •     the four seasons
    •     the four "sacred numbers"
    •     the Four Winds in classical mythology
    •     the four cardinal directions

  • 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
    •     passage from a grade school reading primer, repeated and altered
    •     a poem re-imagining The Aneid set in Ohio

  • 3. Claudia MacTeer, the novel's main narrator, is Pecola's
    •     friend
    •     mother
    •     sister
    •     aunt

  • 4. Claudia tells us in the beginning of the novel that Pecola
    •     was impregnated by her own father
    •     is a free-spirited girl who taught all the women to stand up for themselves
    •     suffered under Jim Crowe laws
    •     had blue eyes

  • 5. The date given in the prelude for the denouement of the novel's events is
    •     1873
    •     1939
    •     1965
    •     1984

  • 6. The time of the novel's events ties the story to
    •     Reagan's racism and his war against America's black poor
    •     the Vietnam war and the violence against the poor
    •     the Reconstruction era and the legacy of slavery
    •     World War II and the Nazi regime's ideas of beauty

  • 7. In the prelude, Claudia says that when facing the tragedy of Pecola, one
    •     asks "why" and then, because "why" is too difficult to handle, asks "how"
    •     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"

  • 8. The above-mentioned question posed by Claudia in the prelude shows that
    •     questions are meaningless and silly when dealing with issues of race
    •     humans all have total free will
    •     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"

  • 9. Claudia's parents could best be described as
    •     stern but loving
    •     abusive and cruel
    •     alcoholic and amusing
    •     over-indulgent

  • 10. The MacTeer family gets a new boarder named
    •     Baby Suggs
    •     Cholly Breedlove
    •     Oedipa Maas
    •     Mr. Henry

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