1、What is Toni Morrison’s nationality?
A、She is an American.
B、She is an African
C、She is British.
D、She is Australian.
2、When did Toni Morrison become a Nobel Laureate?
A、In 1993.
B、In 2003.
C、In 2013.
D、In 1954.
3、What is Toni Morrison famous for?
A、She is famous for her narrative technique, sympathy and humanity.
B、She is famous for her portrayal of Americans caught between ethnicity and aspiration.
C、She is known as a woman writer of great insight in intellectual life.
D、She is famous
4、What role does the Blues play in the novel?
A、It comforts people and soothes their soul.
B、It is a way to transmit black culture heritage.
C、It is inspiring.
D、Both a and b.
5、Why does Claudia wish to have someone to break her heart?
A、Because she wants to grow up and enjoy a life of freedom.
B、Because her mother’s singing makes love and loss sweet and endurable.
C、Because she wants to be loved by a man outside of her family.
D、Because she is a dreamy girl.
6、What does the scene of Claudia’s father teaching them to kindle the fire symbolize?
A、It symbolizes the good family tie among father and children.
B、It symbolizes the father’s love to keep the family together.
C、It symbolizes the father’s kindness.
D、It symbolizes the love among the family members and the effort the parents ma
7、How do you interpret the scene of Claudia being beaten?
A、It shows strict discipline of children to make them righteous person.
B、It is a scene criticizing domestic violence.
C、It is a way of Claudia’s parents to vent their anger.
D、It shows different stages of pain.
8、Why is M’dear asked when a person is of serious illness?
A、She is like a priest who offers spiritual consolation.
B、She is a great doctor of the community.
C、She specializes in treating deadly illness.
D、She is the leader of the community.
9、Why does the Primer appear at different parts of the novel?
A、It is a symbol of the Claudia’s family.
B、It is a symbol of the Pecola’s family.
C、It is the ideal African American family.
D、It serves the structural function and the thematic function.
10、Why do the words in the Primer all cluster together?
A、To indicate Pecola’s gradual descending into madness.
B、To indicate the alienation of Pecola.
C、To indicate the hardship that the black community has to face.
D、To show the madness the black people have to face.
11、What is the purpose of heading the sections in four seasons?
A、To indicate the natural setting of the plot.
B、To correspond to the shifting of the mood of each section.
C、To tell the fate of the main character, Pecola.
D、Both a and b.
12、Why does Pecola drink almost all the milk in Claudia’s household?
A、Because she is always hungry.
B、Because she is intimidated by Claudia.
C、Because she is fascinated by the white girl’s face on the milk cup.
D、Because she loves milk.
13、Why does Pecola fetishize over the white’s beauty standard?
A、Because she is surrounded in everyday life by the symbol of white beauty.
B、Because she is almost cut off from black tradition so that she cannot resist the influence of white culture
C、Because she is raised to hate her identity as black.
D、B
14、What kind of attitude does Claudia hold toward the white beauty?
A、She conducts an outright war against it.
B、She joins her peers in their admiration of the white beauty.
C、She wants to dismantle it and is unwilling to accept it.
D、She is jealous of the white beauty.
15、What are the qualities that Cholly supposed to develop in his quest for his father?
A、He is supposed to learn the importance of responsibility.
B、He is supposed to learn the importance of patience and leadership.
C、He is supposed to know the orientation of his life better.
D、He is supposed to purify his own soul.
16、What kind of person does Cholly find his father to be?
A、His father is a tall and old man.
B、His father is a gambler and a drunkard.
C、His father is an uncouth and rude person without a sense of responsibility.
D、He is handsome.
17、Why does Cholly feel free from social responsibilities?
A、He has not been through the process of subjugation to authority.
B、He suffers greatly from his father’s denial.
C、He grows up without parents.
D、He has lost his parents.
18、Why does Pecola wants a pair of blue eyes?
A、Because she has suffered prejudice for being a black.
B、Because blue eyes are prettier.
C、Because she thinks that blue eyes will help her to see better.
D、Because she likes the color blue.
19、Why does Pecola’s mother choose the white girl over Pecola?
A、Because she enjoys being the servant of white people.
B、Because she is afraid that the white girl’s parents will be angry at her.
C、Because she accepts the concept that the black people are inferior.
D、Because she is afraid of unemployment.
20、Why does Claudia dismantles the white doll?
A、Because it is not the kind of Christmas gift she really wants.
B、Because she is puzzled over people’s preference of white over black.
C、Because she dislikes dolls.
D、Because she is inquisitive.
