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The Bluest Eye Test

(70 Points)

Multiple Choice

  1. Why does Pecola stay briefly with the MacTeers?
  2. Her father has raped her
  3. She was new in town
  4. Her father has tried to burn down their home
  5. Cholly put them outdoors
  6. What is a distinguishing characteristic of Pauline (Polly) Breedlove?
  7. She has blue eye
  8. She has a bad foot
  9. She has a curved spine
  10. She is very tall
  11. Who lives above the Breedloves’ apartment?
  12. Three Prostitutes
  13. Henry Washington
  14. Soaphead Church
  15. The MacTeers
  16. Where does Mrs. Breedlove work?
  17. At a restaurant
  18. At a grocery store
  19. At the home of a white family
  20. At the MacTeers’ home
  21. Who hates white baby dolls?
  22. Frieda
  23. Claudia
  24. Pecola
  25. Maureen Peal
  26. What were the boys at school picking on Pecola for?
  27. Her ugliness
  28. Her blackness
  29. Because she saw her father naked
  30. Both A and C
  31. What do Maureen and Pecola have in common?
  32. Skin color
  33. Friends
  34. They both get their periods
  35. Neither of them have blue eyes
  36. What does Frieda know about Woodrow Cain that she was going to expose to all?
  37. He wets the bed
  38. He picks his nose
  39. He has never kissed a girl
  40. He doesn’t have a dad
  41. What important event occurs when Pecola is staying with MacTeers?
  42. She kills the family cat
  43. She is molested by Henry Washington
  44. She poisons the family dog
  45. She menstruates for the first time
  46. Who raises Cholly?
  47. Aunt Jimmy
  48. Geraldine
  49. Samson
  50. Blue Jack
  51. Which of the following characters is still alive when the story ends?
  52. Cholly
  53. Pecola’s baby
  54. Pauline Breedlove
  55. Aunt Jimmy
  56. Where does most of the action in the novel take place?
  57. Princeton, Kentucky
  58. Crossville, Tennessee
  59. Macon, Georgia
  60. Lorain, Ohio
  61. Frieda is sexually abused by whom?
  62. Cholly
  63. Her father
  64. A boy at school
  65. Mr. Henry
  66. Because Frieda does not want to be “ruined” like the Maginot Line, Claudia and Frieda search for what?
  67. Money
  68. Education
  69. Whiskey
  70. Love
  71. The two girls offend the Maginot Line (Miss Marie) by telling her that their mother didn’t allow them to go into her house. She reacts by doing what?
  72. Laughing and throwing a bottle at them
  73. Attacking the girls
  74. Standing up and walking into her house
  75. Crying and cussing at the young girls
  76. Mrs. Breedlove’s nickname, given to her by the family she works for, is what?
  77. Mrs. B
  78. Pauline
  79. Polly
  80. Sally
  1. Pecola gets a beating from her mother because
  2. She forgets to bring the wash home
  3. She cusses
  4. She brought friends to her mother’s workplace
  5. She spills a pie on the floor
  6. When Pauline first moves to Ohio with Cholly, which aspect of the North bother her MOST?
  7. The white woman
  8. The food
  9. The space
  10. The need to be rich
  11. Pauline becomes obsessed with beauty, money, and clothing. Why does REALLY want to look better?
  12. Her husband loves her less
  13. Because she wants other women to cast favorable glances her way
  14. She feels ugly inside because of how her husband treats her
  15. She feels is it the only way to fit in with the white people
  16. There are many things that Mrs. Breedlove dislikes about white people. One thing is stated in her diary. Mrs. Breedlove states: “Folks can’t like folks just ‘cause they has the same ______.” Fill in the blank.
  17. Mama
  18. Color skin
  19. Friends
  20. Address
  21. Mrs. Breedlove’s first boss dismisses her because
  22. She won’t leave Cholly
  23. She does a poor job
  24. She thinks Pauline is an alcoholic
  25. She is jealous of Pauline
  26. The doctor, who delivers Pauline’s baby, compares her to what animal?
  27. Dog
  28. Horse
  29. Deer
  30. Goat
  31. Before Pecola was born, Pauline would speak to her stomach. She loved Pecola. When she was born she knew that Pecola was smart, but ______.
  32. Diseased
  33. Ugly
  34. Dependent on alcohol
  35. Unwanted
  36. The main reason that Pauline does not leave Cholly is what?
  37. Fear
  38. God
  39. The children
  40. Love
  1. What flowers do Claudia and Frieda plant to save Pecola’s baby?
  2. Roses
  3. Bachelor Buttons
  4. Marigolds
  5. Lilacs
  6. Which of the following DOES NOT happen to Pecola after her father rapes her?
  7. Her father rapes her a second time
  8. She runs away with a local man
  9. She becomes pregnant
  10. She goes mad
  11. What happens when Cholly finds his father?
  12. He moves in with his father
  13. His father disowns him
  14. His father tries to beat him up
  15. His father embraces him
  16. What happens after Aunt Jimmy’s funeral?
  17. Cholly beats up a younger boy
  18. Cholly has sex for the first time
  19. Cholly becomes ill
  20. Cholly hides under a bridge and cries
  21. Who takes refuge in the movies?
  22. Claudia
  23. Pecola
  24. Pauline Breedlove
  25. Sammy
  26. In what way is Pecola’s wish for blue eyes fulfilled at the end of the novel?
  27. She develops an eye disease that turns them blue
  28. She uses dye to make them blue and goes blind
  29. She comes to believe that she has blue eyes
  30. Everyone else tells her she has blue eyes
  31. What happens to Sammy at the end of the story?
  32. He runs away for good
  33. He attempts to kill his father
  34. He helps Pecola escape
  35. He is beaten by his mother
  36. Who cat is Pecola blamed for killing?
  37. Mrs. MacTeer’s
  38. The Maginot Line’s
  39. Her mother’s
  40. Geraldine’s
  41. Who temporarily befriends Pecola after Pecola is teased by a group of boys?
  42. Rosemary Villanucci
  43. Claudia MacTeer
  44. Junior
  45. Maureen Peal
  1. Why does Mr. Henry send Claudia and Frieda out for ice cream?
  2. So that he can steal from Mrs. MacTeer
  3. So that he can drink all of Mrs. MacTeer’s milk
  4. So that he can entertain prostitutes
  5. So that his bible-study group can meet in peace
  6. What kind of pets does Junior have?
  7. A cat
  8. A dog
  9. A frog
  10. A goat
  11. What is peculiar about Maureen Peal’s hands?
  12. There are only four fingers on each hand
  13. There are scars where she was burned as a child
  14. There are stumps where her sixth fingers were removed
  15. Her thumb are double-jointed
  16. What was the Breedloves’ apartment formerly used as?
  17. A hospital clinic
  18. A storage room
  19. A hotel room
  20. A store
  21. What is Soaphead Church’s occupation?
  22. Doctor
  23. Dream interpreter
  24. Preacher
  25. Scholar
  26. Claudia and Frieda want Pecola’s baby to live in order to
  27. Have someone for Pecola to love
  28. Validate their own beauty
  29. Have a new sibling
  30. To underscore the universal love for baby dolls
  31. Excerpts of which first-grade primer remind readers to be aware of the dichotomy between the middle class and lower class cultures?
  32. Dick and Jane
  33. Friendly Village
  34. Ted and Sally
  35. Reading Rainbow

Short Answer Questions (10 points each)

Choose two (2) questions to answer. Your reposes need to be a minimum of 75 words. Use example from the novel to support your answer.

  1. What is the significance of “seeds” in the novel?
  2. How is the middle-class families portrayed in the novel? Is this an accurate portrayal of how middle-class families behave? Why or why not?
  3. How does the knowledge of Pauline’s past and Cholly’s past change the reader’s impression of them?
  4. Compare Pecola’s character to Claudia’s. Which of these two characters is better able to reject white, middle-class American’s definitions of beauty?

Quotes: (10 points each)

Choose one (1) quote to answer. What the does the quote mean? What is the significance of the quote? Is the concept the quote relates to still prevalent today? Why or why not? Responses should be a minimum of 50 words. Use examples from the novel to support your answer.

  1. “It had occurred to Pecola sometime ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and knew the sights—if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different” (p. 46).
  2. “Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health” (p. 205).