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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
(a) “When.”
(b) “How.”
(c) “What.”
(d) “Why.”

2. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?
(a) That the hatred is justified.
(b) That the hatred is not accurate.
(c) That the hatred is accurate.
(d) That the hatred is unjustified.

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

4. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She runs off.
(c) She screams.
(d) She cries.

5. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?
(a) Under-watered them.
(b) Planted them too deep.
(c) Over-watered them.
(d) Planted them too shallow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?

2. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?

3. The author describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?

4. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?

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

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