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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) “Moved.”
(b) “Enlightened.”
(c) “Informed.”
(d) “Guilty.”

2. The author describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?
(a) Psychological rape.
(b) Psychological murder.
(c) Physical burglary.
(d) Physical arson.

3. Near what local coal company does the narrator say she sometimes goes in the evenings with grown-ups to fill burlap sacks with coal in Part II?
(a) Murphy's Coal Company.
(b) Zick’s Coal Company.
(c) Johnson's Coal Company.
(d) Howard’s Coal Company.

4. The narrator compares her father’s eyes to a “cliff of snow threatening to” what, in Part III?
(a) “Avalanche.”
(b) “Explode.”
(c) “Erupt.”
(d) “Melt.”

5. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Mr. Buford.
(b) Miss Dunion.
(c) Woodrow Cain.
(d) Mr. Yacobowski.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Geraldine’s son called in Part III?

2. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

3. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?

4. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?

5. What kind of car is Rosemary sitting in while she eats bread and butter in the beginning of Part II?

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