The Bluest Eye - Autumn

Why does Claudia hate Shirley Temple?

• Because she's cute

• Because she's white

• Because she dances with Bojangles

• Because she is a celebrity

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What toy does Claudia rip up because she hates it?

• Her black doll
• Her white doll
• Her train set
• Her Shopkins

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What does Claudia want for Christmas?

• A Black doll
• To sit on Big Papa's lap
• To have blue eyes
• To sit in her mama's car

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What does Pecola love to drink out of the Shirley Temple cup?

• milk

• apple juice

• orange juice

• Sprite with cherries

What does Pecola ask the girls at the end of Autumn?

• How to get someone to love her

• How to mend her clothes

• How to put on the blue contacts

• How to order a Shirley Temple cup

Why does Pecola come to stay with Claudia and Frieda?

• Her father burned their house down

• They got evicted

• Her father was drunk

• Cholly and Pauline had a fight

The timing of the novel's events connects to 

• hostility towards veterans of the Vietnam war
• the legacy of slavery in the Cold War
• World War II and Nazi ideas about racial superiority
• taxation of the poor under Nixon

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Claudia destroys white baby dolls because...

• she is angry with her mother
• she wanted something else
• Morrison wants to deconstruct ideas about beauty
• Morrison characterises Claudia as violent to create tension

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Pecola is taken by surprise at her first menstruation because....

• She doesn't understand what is happening

• Her mother is not like Mrs MacTeer

• the school did not teach sex education

• All of these reasons

Pecola's first menstruation is ominous because...

• We are reminded that her father will impregnate her
• It reminds us of the bloodshed of WWII
• It shows she is very ignorant
• She could die

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