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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1969.

2. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?
(a) “Propertied black people.”
(b) “Poor Hispanic people.”
(c) “Poor white people.”
(d) “Rich white people.”

3. Mr. Henry tells Claudia and Frieda that the prostitutes who just left were what in Part III?
(a) School teachers.
(b) Spies for a foreign government.
(c) Members of his Bible class.
(d) Undercover police women.

4. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The Greek hotel.”
(b) “The Polish hotel.”
(c) “The English hotel.”
(d) “The Spanish hotel.”

5. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?
(a) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(b) “Victimized, or traumatized.”
(c) “Villain-ized or victimized.”
(d) “Disembodied and alienated.”

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Frieda in Part III, Mrs. Cain told her mother that Woodward did what?

2. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

3. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?

4. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?

5. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?

(see the answer key)

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