Key Moments
This is the food Pecola, Maureen, Claudia, and Frieda eat together after school...
What is ice cream?
The book is split up into...
What is seasons?
The narrator of the book who uses I/me/my pronouns.
Who is Claudia?
The author of The Bluest Eye.
Who is Toni Morrison?
What got Pecola in trouble with Mrs. McTeer?
What is drinking all the milk!
What is a common theme found in the Spring section?
What is painful memories, sexuality, and innocence.
Maureen Peel's nickname.
The time period that The Bluest Eye takes place in.
What is the 1940s?
Which character was wrapped in newspaper and tossed in a dumpster after he/she was born?
What is Cholly
This literary technique has to do with structure and is used to convey the disintegration of the mind/mankind when subjected to societal norms.
What is stream of consciousness?
The name of the boy who killed the cat.
Who is Louis Junior?
The eye and fur color of the cat Pecola plays with is...
What is blueish green eyes and black fur.
Who does Cholly compare his intimacy for both Darlene and Pauline
with?
What is Pecola
Throughout the book, these two topics controls the Breedloves.
What is racial self loathing and ugliness?
The names of the "whores" that Pecola visits.
Who are Ms. China, Ms. Poland, and Ms. Marie.
The state that Pauline and Cholly moved to when they were newlyweds.
What is Ohio
What happened when Pauline was giving birth to Pecola?
The doctors claimed she does not feel pain (even in delivery) because she is Black. Compared that Black women deliver babies "right away and with no pain. Just like horses." (125).
1940s beauty standards are a prominent topic in the book. Please name three of the five pop culture figures that are alluded to.
Shirley Temple, Bojangles, Greta Garbo, Jane Withers, Ginger Rogers.
Who assaulted Frieda?
Who is Mr. Henry?
This word is constantly repeated in the book and often has a double meaning: either "sinful" or "unclean."
What is dirty?