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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?
(a) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(b) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(c) “Villain-ized or victimized.”
(d) “Victimized, or traumatized.”

2. The author states in the Foreword, “In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause I chose a unique situation, not" what?
(a) “A realistic one.”
(b) “An imaginative one.”
(c) “A classic one.”
(d) “A representative one.”

3. 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?
(a) Blond hair.
(b) Green eyes.
(c) Freckles.
(d) Blue eyes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?

2. 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"?

3. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

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

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

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