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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

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

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

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

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?
(a) “Legitimate.”
(b) “Beautiful.”
(c) “Inevitable.”
(d) “Honorable.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?

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

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

5. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?

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