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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) “Collective memory.”
(b) “Justice.”
(c) “Disqualifying metaphors.”
(d) “Time.”

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

3. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?
(a) “Guilty.”
(b) “Moved.”
(c) “Enlightened.”
(d) “Informed.”

4. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Orange.
(d) Red.

5. 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?
(a) That the hatred is unjustified.
(b) That the hatred is justified.
(c) That the hatred is accurate.
(d) That the hatred is not accurate.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?

4. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?

5. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?

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