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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) “A classic one.”
(c) “An imaginative one.”
(d) “A representative one.”

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

4. Who is the narrator of Part I?
(a) Pecola Breedlove.
(b) Poland.
(c) Claudia MacTeer.
(d) Frieda MacTeer.

5. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “A series of bad choices.”
(b) “The poorest of luck.”
(c) “Societal pressures.”
(d) “A crippled and crippling family.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?

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?

3. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?

4. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?

5. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?

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