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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?
(a) The elderly.
(b) A female.
(c) Children.
(d) A male.

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

3. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Immoral thinking.”
(b) “Lust or despair.”
(c) “Criminal behavior.”
(d) “Evil and sadness.”

4. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Anderson Breedlove.
(b) Cholly Breedlove.
(c) Sammy Breedlove.
(d) Soaphead Church.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?

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

4. Who is the narrator of Part I?

5. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?

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