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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 describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?
(a) Physical arson.
(b) Physical burglary.
(c) Psychological rape.
(d) Psychological murder.

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

3. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?
(a) He says he is too busy.
(b) He cries.
(c) He gets mad.
(d) He smiles.

4. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?
(a) Bill.
(b) James.
(c) John.
(d) Dick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. 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?

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

4. 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"?

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

(see the answer key)

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