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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?
(a) “Justice.”
(b) “Collective memory.”
(c) “Time.”
(d) “Disqualifying metaphors.”

2. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?
(a) She runs off.
(b) She cries.
(c) She screams.
(d) She laughs.

3. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?
(a) Spacing.
(b) Every other word.
(c) Punctuation and capitalization.
(d) Every noun.

4. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Criminal behavior.”
(b) “Lust or despair.”
(c) “Immoral thinking.”
(d) “Evil and sadness.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?

2. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?

3. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?

4. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?

5. The author states in the book’s Foreword that in constructing the narrative she did not want to do what to "the characters who trashed Pecola and contributed to her collapse"?

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