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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1969.

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

3. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
(a) 11.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

4. How much milk does Mrs. MacTeer complain about having disappeared from her refrigerator overnight in Part II?
(a) 3 quarts.
(b) 3 gallons.
(c) 1 quart.
(d) 2 quarts.

5. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?
(a) Punctuation and capitalization.
(b) Every other word.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Every noun.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. How old does the narrator say she is in Part II?

5. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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