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reading quiz - summerver
directions: answer each of the following questions based upon your reading, using process of elimination strategies. please answer your answers on this worksheet immediately below.

1. _ 3. _ 5. _ 7. *_ 9. ___
2. _ 4. _ 6. _ 8. _ 10. *___
3. **how does community react to pecolas pregnancy?

(a) people want her to move away.
(b) people hope she will keep the baby.
(c) people expect mrs. breedlove to raise the baby and pretend it is hers.
(d) people think she should stop going to school.

1. **how does claudia react to pecolas pregnancy?

(a) she is upset that no one told her how you make a baby.
(b) she wants to take the baby and raise it herself.
(c) she is furious towards cholly and wants to hurt him.
(d) she is saddened and wants pecolas baby to live.

1. *all of the following is true except.

(a) pecola believes she has blue eyes.
(b) pecola gives birth to her fathers baby.
(c) claudia and frieda feel guilty.
(d) following her trauma, pecola has lost her mind.

1. **how do the townspeople treat pecola?

(a) they compare themselves to her to feel better about themselves.
(b) they kick her out of the town because she keeps wandering the streets.
(c) they raise money to support her because they pity her.
(d) they try to help her, but she refuses to accept their assistance.

1. **who is talking from pages 193 to 204?

(a) pecola is talking to herself
(b) frieda and claudia
(c) pecola and soaphead church
(d) mrs. breedlove and pecola

1. **why does pecola believe the newspeople are meaning her differently?

(a) they are sympathetic to her pain.
(b) they dislike her because she is ugly.
(c) they are jealous of her blue eyes.
(d) they blame her for getting pregnant.

1. what happened to cholly?

(a) he took his own life because of guilt.
(b) he died in the workhouse.
(c) he abandoned his family and moved south.
(d) he promised to change his ways and provide for his family.

1. **what does morrison suggest about love?

(a) love is the most powerful thing in anyones life
(b) love cannot solve pecolas problems because she doesnt know how to love.
(c) the strength of ones love is dependent on their ability to love.
(d) the town is void of love, but pecola does not recognize the absence of love.

1. how does the end of the novel connect to the beginning?

(a) morrison returns to the metaphor of marigolds from the prologue.
(b) maureen peal returns to the narrative by the end of the book.
(c) morrison alludes to dick and jane again in the final pages of the text.
(d) pecola goes back to live with the macteers.

1. **according to morrison, why didnt the seeds grow?

(a) because of frieda and claudia.
(b) because of too much rain.
(c) because they were planted too deeply.
(d) because of the earth.

Explanation:

These questions are about the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, focusing on character reactions, plot events, and thematic elements. To answer them, one needs to recall or analyze the text:

1. For "How does the community react to Pecola’s pregnancy?", the community's reaction involves Mrs. Breedlove and others. Option C aligns with the novel's events.
2. "How does Claudia react to Pecola’s pregnancy?" Claudia wants Pecola's baby to live (Option D) as she's saddened by the situation.
3. "All of the following is true EXCEPT" - Claudia and Frieda do not feel guilty (Option C is false, as they try to help Pecola in their way, and the other options are true).
4. "How do the townspeople treat Pecola?" They compare themselves to her to feel better (Option A), as the town's attitude is one of self - comparison rather than genuine help.
5. "Who is talking from pages 193 to 204?" It's Pecola talking to herself (Option A) as she descends into madness.
6. "Why does Pecola believe the newspeople are meaning her differently?" They blame her for getting pregnant (Option D), reflecting the town's judgmental attitude.
7. "What happened to Cholly?" He died in the workhouse (Option B) as per the novel's plot.
8. "What does Morrison suggest about love?" Love cannot solve Pecola’s problems because she doesn’t know how to love (Option B), as the novel explores the absence of healthy love in Pecola's life.
9. "How does the end of the novel connect to the beginning?" Morrison returns to the metaphor of marigolds from the prologue (Option A), closing the narrative loop with the marigold imagery.
10. "According to Morrison, why didn’t the seeds grow?" Because of the earth (Option D), as the marigold seeds' failure mirrors Pecola's failed hopes, and the earth's barrenness is a metaphor.

Answer:

1. C. People expect Mrs. Breedlove to raise the baby and pretend it is hers.
2. D. She is saddened and wants Pecola's baby to live.
3. C. Claudia and Frieda feel guilty.
4. A. They compare themselves to her to feel better about themselves.
5. A. Pecola is talking to herself
6. D. They blame her for getting pregnant.
7. B. He died in the workhouse.
8. B. Love cannot solve Pecola’s problems because she doesn’t know how to love.
9. A. Morrison returns to the metaphor of marigolds from the prologue.
10. D. Because of the earth.