The Bluest Eye: 187-206

Claudia and Frieda have been selling packets of Marigold seeds in the hope of purchasing what?

• A white Baby Doll

• A Raggedy Ann doll

• A new bicycle

• A bookshelf for their books

With whom does Pecola Breedlove hold a lengthy conversation in the last chapter?

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Mrs. Breedlove

• An imaginary friend

What do the MacTeer girls hope to achieve by burying their money and planting marigold seeds?

• The MacTeer girls hope to help their mother grow a more colorful and beautiful garden.

• The MacTeer girls hope to help their parents give birth to a third child.

• The MacTeer girls hope to help the Fishers grow even more flowers in their wheelbarrow.

• The MacTeer girls hope to help ensure that Pecola’s unborn child will live.

Towards the end of The Bluest Eye, narrator Claudia MacTeer compares one of the other characters to a grounded bird: “Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly. Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach — could not even see — but which filled the valleys of the mind?” (204). Which character does Claudia compare to a bird?

• Frieda MacTeer

• Mrs. MacTeer

• Pecola Breedlove

• Mrs. Breedlove

In the penultimate paragraph of The Bluest Eye, narrator Claudia MacTeer asserts, “Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe” (206). To which character is Claudia most likely referring when she observes that “the love of a free man is never safe”?

• Mr. Yacobowski

• Cholly Breedlove

• Samson Fuller

• Mr. Henry

“We could give up the bicycle. Bury the money and . . . plant the seeds. [. . .] Claudia, do you want to do it or not?” (192).

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Mrs. MacTeer

• Pecola Breedlove

"He really did a good job. Everybody’s jealous. Every time I look at somebody, they look off” (195).

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Mrs. MacTeer

• Pecola Breedlove

“Nobody ‘around here’ probably has bluer eyes. What about someplace else? [. . .] [S]uppose there is somebody way off somewhere with bluer eyes than mine?” (202).

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Mrs. MacTeer

• Pecola Breedlove

“All of us — all who knew her — felt so felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness” (205)

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Pecola Breedlove

• Mrs. MacTeer

“I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year” (206).

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Mrs. MacTeer

• Pecola Breedlove