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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) A friend.
(d) Her brother.

2. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1927.

3. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) Blue eyes.
(b) A boyfriend.
(c) Food to eat.
(d) A new dress.

4. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?
(a) Villanucci.
(b) MacTeer.
(c) Yacobowski.
(d) Williams.

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"?
(a) Make them seem human.
(b) Justify their actions.
(c) Dehumanize them.
(d) Make them into martyrs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?

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

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

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

5. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?

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