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

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

2. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
(a) Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) Lorain, Ohio.
(c) Columbus, Ohio.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

3. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?
(a) Consonants.
(b) Vowels.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Punctuation.

4. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?
(a) He has died.
(b) He has become rich.
(c) He’s become President.
(d) He has left town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?

5. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?

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