The Bluest Eye

What gift does Claudia MacTeer get every year?

• Candy

• A doll

• Money

• Socks

What does Pecola get at the end of the chapter?

• a twitch

• someone to love

• her period

• a new toy

Which part of her body is Pecola Breedlove unable to make disappear?

• Her nose

• Her eyes

• Her feet

• Her hands

What does Pecola purchase at Mr. Yacobowski’s store?

• Pecola purchases a head of lettuce and two tomatoes.

• Pecola purchases five sticks of bubble gum.

• Pecola purchases three apples and a banana.

• Pecola purchases nine Mary Jane candies.

Who temporarily befriends Pecola after Pecola is teased by a group of boys?

• Rosemary Villanucci

• Claudia MacTeer

• Junior

• Maureen Peal

Pauline tries to ease her loneliness by going to the movies. Pauline and Cholly live

• in a two-room apartment above a store.

• in a delivery truck.

• next to a movie theater.

• with Pauline's family.

Answer explanation

Lines 6-7 reveal that there are two rooms and lines 9-10 describe the truck delivering furniture downstairs.

Toni Morrison’s language in chapter one depicts an environment that is harsh yet loving. For example, ¨I do not know that she is not angry at me, but at my sickness.¨ this tells us that the mother was never mad at her for puking. We can see this as the mother is helping clean up the puke and doing everything to make sure that Claudia is comfortable. I believe that she was more frustrated than mad.

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• sickness." This

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What happened to Pecola as she came downstairs?

• She broke her ankle

• She started her period

• She was pushed by Frieda

• Rosemary scratched her

“But I don’t want no tore couch if’n it’s bought new” (36).

• Mrs. Breedlove

• Cholly Breedlove

• Pecola Breedlove

• Mr. Yacobowski

“Please, God. [. . .] Please make me disappear” (45).

• Mrs. Breedlove

• Cholly Breedlove

• Pecola Breedlove

• Mr. Yacobowski