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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Anderson Breedlove.
(b) Soaphead Church.
(c) Cholly Breedlove.
(d) Sammy Breedlove.

2. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 14.

3. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?
(a) Dunion.
(b) Whitcomb.
(c) Washington.
(d) Yacobowski.

4. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) A new bride.
(b) An old woman.
(c) A child.
(d) An old man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?

2. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?

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?

4. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

5. The author writes in the novel's Foreword that when she began writing The Bluest Eye, she was interested in the "far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as" what?

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