WorksheetsThe Bluest Eye: 81-109
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What causes Junior to feel “hatred” towards his mother Geraldine’s cat?
Junior is aware that the cat is first in his mother’s affections.
Junior has allergies that make him sneeze in the presence of cats.
When he was an infant, Junior was scratched across the face by his mother’s cat.
Junior is prejudiced against cats with black fur.
How does Junior end up killing Geraldine’s cat?
Junior places the cat under a pillow and then jumps on top of the pillow.
Junior swings the cat in a circle above his head and then throws it against a window.
Junior puts the cat into the oven and shuts the door.
Junior throws the cat under the wheels of a moving school bus.
Why does Mr. MacTeer knock Mr. Henry off the porch? Why does Mrs. MacTeer hit Mr. Henry with a broom?
The MacTeers learn that Mr. Henry brought two prostitutes into the house.
The MacTeers are angry that Mr. Henry moved in but refused to pay the rent.
The MacTeers learn that Mr. Henry attempted to burn their house down.
The MacTeers learn that Mr. Henry molested their oldest daughter, Frieda.
How does the narrator describe the house where Mrs. Breedlove works as a housekeeper?
The house is a “large white house” featuring a “wheelbarrow full of flowers” (105).
The house is a “narrow brick house” with a “narrow sunless windows” (105).
The house is a “modest coach house” nestled in the “shadow of a stone mansion” (105).
The house is a “converted storefront” that does not have any “bathing facilities” (105).
What causes Mrs. Breedlove to get angry and tell Pecola to leave the Fishers’ house?
Pecola accidentally breaks one of the baby dolls owned by the Fishers’ daughter.
Pecola accidentally spills the lemonade that her mother has just finished making.
Pecola accidentally tips over the berry cobbler that her mother has just finished baking.
Pecola accidentally falls down the stairs that lead to the Fishers’ basement.
“Say, you want to see something? I got something to show you. [. . .] Some kittens” (88-89).
Geraldine
Junior
Frieda MacTeer
Pecola Breedlove
“Mr. Henry. [. . .] He . . . picked at me. [. . .] He touched me” (99).
Geraldine
Junior
Frieda MacTeer
Pecola Breedlove
“I don’t want to be ruined. [. . .] Like the Maginot Line. She’s ruined. Mama said so” (101).
Geraldine
Junior
Frieda MacTeer
Pecola Breedlove
“Her name is Miss Marie. [. . .] Miss Marie is nice. They all nice” (106).
Geraldine
Junior
Frieda MacTeer
Pecola Breedlove
“Hush, baby hush. Come here. Oh, Lord, look at your dress. Don’t cry no more. Polly will change it” (109).
Pecola Breedlove
Mrs. Breedlove
Geraldine
Junior
satiety
Sideways; directed to one side
Taking care not to spend money needlessly
The state of feeling completely full
To move downward
thrift
Sideways; directed to one side
Taking care not to spend money needlessly
The state of feeling completely full
To move downward
scythe
The state of feeling completely full
A farming tool with a long curved blade
To move downward
Taking care not to spend money needlessly
sidelong
Sideways; directed to one side
A farming tool with a long curved blade
Taking care not to spend money needlessly
To move downward
descend
Sideways; directed to one side
Taking care not to spend money needlessly
The state of feeling completely full
To move downward
