The Bluest Eye

What was Mrs. Breedlove nickname?

• Pauline

• Polly

• Mrs. Breedlove

• Mother

When narrator Claudia MacTeer asserts that she knows her enemy is not Maureen Peal but rather “the Thing,” to what is she referring (74)?

• “The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her smart, and not us” (74).

• “The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us” (74).

• “The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her brave, and not us” (74).

• “The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her creative, and not us” (74).

“I am cute! And you ugly! Black and ugly e mos. I am cute!” (73).

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Maureen Peal

• Pecola Breedlove

You cut that out, you hear? [. . .] Leave her ’lone, or I’m gone tell everybody what you did!” (66).

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Maureen Peal

• Pecola Breedlove

“There’s an Isaley’s. Want some ice cream? I have money” (68).

• Claudia MacTeer

• Frieda MacTeer

• Maureen Peal

• Pecola Breedlove

“Here’s a quarter. Gone over to Isaley’s and get yourself some cream. You been good girls, ain’t you?” (75).

• Mr. Henry

• Claudia MacTeer

• Pecola Breedlove

• Frieda MacTeer

When Mrs. Breedlove begins to work for the Fisher family, how does her relation to her own family change?

• Mrs. Breedlove begins to shower more love and affection upon her own husband and children.

• Mrs. Breedlove begins to devote more time and attention to the education of her children.

• Mrs. Breedlove begins to bake delicious berry cobblers for her husband and children.

• Mrs. Breedlove begins to neglect her house, her children, and her husband.

“When I first seed Cholly, I want you to know it was like all the bits of color from that time down home when all us chil’ren went berry picking after a funeral [. . .] and they mashed up and stained my hips” (115).

• Mrs. Breedlove

• Cholly Breedlove

• Pecola Breedlove

• Mr. Henry

“She didn’t never give me the eleven dollars she owed me, neither. That hurt bad” (120).

• Mrs. Breedlove

• Cholly Breedlove

• Pecola Breedlove

• Mr. Henry

“I was sitting back in my seat, and I taken a big bite of that candy, and it pulled a tooth right out of my mouth. I could of cried. I had good teeth, not a rotten one in my head” (123).

• Mrs. Breedlove

• Cholly Breedlove

• Mr. Henry

• Mr. Fisher