What is said to be the only thing in the Breedlove's apartment that is 'living'?
The coal stove/the fire
100
Who is Frieda?
Claudia's older sister
100
What are the names of the three whores?
China, Miss Marie/Maginot Line, Poland
100
"She was a child - unburdened - why wasn't she happy? The clear statement of her misery was an accusation. He wanted to break her neck - but tenderly." (Bonus: Speaker)
Pecola, Cholly
100
Why does Pecola desire blue eyes?
She thinks they are beautiful
She thinks bad things won't happen around her if she has them
200
How does Mrs. Breedlove feel about going to the movies?
-She loves it, because it allows her to see a world of beauty and aspire to something better
-She hates it, because she sees a beautiful, glamorous lifestyle that she does not have and cannot reach
200
How does Mr. Henry treat Claudia and Pecola?
He acknowledges them, gives them nicknames, and gives them money for sweets
200
Who is Elihue Micah Whitcomb?
Soaphead Church
200
"Did you forget? Did you forget about the children? Yes, you forgot. You let them go wanting, sit on road shoudlers, crying next to their dead mothers. I've seen them charred, lame, halt." (Bonus: Speaker)
Written to God, Soaphead Church
200
How is Pecola described as using her ugliness?
As a mask or a cape to hide behind.
300
How is Mrs. Breedlove said to use her ugliness?
As an actor does a prop, to make her more of a martyr.
300
Why do Claudia and Frieda tease Maureen Peal?
They are jealous of how 'cute' and wealthy she is, and by the fact that no one else bullies her.
300
Why does Soaphead Church offer to give Pecola blue eyes?
He thinks her request is the most reasonable he's ever heard - it makes sense to him that a black girl would want blue eyes.
300
"I hated [her]. Not because she was cute, but because she danced with Bojangles, who was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me." Bonus: Speaker
Shirley Temple, Claudia
300
Why does Pecola love the Mary Jane candies?
She associated them with "beautiful" Mary Jane, and thinks that by eating them she might become like Mary Jane.
400
What event causes Cholly to "take back his manhood"?
Sleeping with the women in Macon.
400
How does Mrs. MacTeer react to what happened after Mr. Henry touched Frieda?
She mindlessly sweeps while wearing dirty shoes and singing blues songs.
400
How do women like Geraldine feel about their husbands?
-They tolerate their presence
-They seem their husbands as intruders
-They marry and have sex with them because that's what they are supposed to do
-They have no real emotion for their husbands
400
"Only they would know how to connect the heart of a red watermelon to the asafetida bag to the muscadine (...) to a man called Blue and come up with what all of that meant in joy, in pain, in anger, in love, and give it its final and pervading ache of freedom."
Cholly Breedlove
400
What two ideas does Pecola relate to love when she visits the whores?
-Miss Marie and Dewey Prince eating fish
-The sounds of her parents having sex/choking sounds and silence
500
Give one example of how Cholly is "dangerously free"
500
As children, what do Claudia and Frieda believe results in the death of Pecola's baby?
The marigolds not blooming/not planting the marigolds deep enough
500
Why did Junior cause so much trouble at school and bully his classmates?
He wanted to act "black" and be a part of their groups, but wasn't allowed. As he got older he began to hate them instead, and took it out on them.
500
"Nobody paid us an attention, so we paid very good attention to ourselves. Our limitations were not known to us - not then. Our only handicap was our size."
Claudia and Frieda (acceptable answer: children)
500
Describe how Pecola reacts after gaining "blue eyes"
-She begins to talk to herself
-She has a mental breakdown
-She loses her baby