The Bluest Eye Test: Spring ROBISON
Pauline Williams was one of how many children in her family?
11
How many years of school did Pauline Williams attend?
4
What does Frieda say her mother hit Mr. Henry with in Spring?
A broom
In describing Pecola's mother in Spring, the narrator says, "Holding Cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like" what?
A cross
What did Frieda's father throw at Mr. Henry, knocking him off the porch, in Spring?
A tricycle
What were the names of Pauline Williams's parents?
Ada and Fowler Williams
Claudia's mother sings a song about trains where in the beginning of Spring?
Arkansas
Where did Cholly's mother abandon him when he was four days old?
By the railroad
Where does Pecola say the prostitute Poland is going to take her to see the Loop in Spring?
Chicago
What were the baby twin siblings of Pauline Williams called, according to the narrator in Spring?
Chicken and Pie
Where does Pecola say the prostitute China is going to take her to see the square in Spring?
Cleveland
What does Mrs. MacTeer say "ate up" the prostitutes named China and Poland in Spring?
Drinking whiskey
What flowers does the narrator say even now hold no cheer for her in the spring in Spring?
Forsythias
Where does Maginot Line say Pecola has gone when Claudia and Frieda come looking for her in Spring?
Her mother's workplace
Where did Pauline Williams's family move after World War I for the mines and millwork?
Kentucky
What lake is near where Claudia and Frieda live in the novel?
Lake Erie
In speaking of Cholly, Mrs. Breedlove says in Spring, "I started to leave him once, but something came up. Once, after he tried to" do what?
Light the house on firer
Who is described as a "competent midwife and decisive diagnostician" during Aunt Jimmy's illness in Spring?
M'Dear
Which of the prostitutes in town does Mrs. MacTeer say is a "ruined" woman?
Maginot Line
What does Pecola say Maginot Line's real name is in Spring?
Miss Marie
Who came running out with his gun during the conflict with Mr. Henry in Spring?
Mr. Buford
What neighbor told Mrs. MacTeer that Frieda should be taken to the doctor after the run- in with Mr. Henry in case she was "ruined" in Spring?
Mrs. Dunion
What does the narrator say Aunt Jimmy died of in Spring?
Peach cobbler
What notion does the narrator refer to in Spring as "Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought"?
Physical beauty
What does the little girl call Mrs. Breedlove at the house where Mrs. Breedlove works in Spring?
Polly
The "competent midwife and decisive diagnostician" tells Aunt Jimmy to drink nothing but what when she is ill in Spring?
Pot liquor
Who came and said that Frieda's father was going to jail, causing Frieda to punch her in Spring?
Rosemary
How did Pauline Williams injure her foot when she was young?
She stepped on a rusty nail
When Frieda tells Claudia what happened with Mr. Henry, Mr. Henry is compared to what townsperson in Spring?
Soaphead Church
The narrator says in Spring, "Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of" what?
Switchings
Who does Cholly's aunt say his father was in Spring?
That Fuller boy
The narrator says in Spring, "But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word" of whom?
The dreamer
Where did Cholly Breedlove first find work when he came to Lorain, Ohio?
The steel mills
How does Pecola's mother describe Pecola when she was born in Spring?
Ugly
Where were Frieda's parents when Mr. Henry "touched her" in Spring?
Weeding the garden
What do Claudia and Frieda hope to get from Pecola in Spring?
Whiskey
