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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 delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) An old man.
(b) An old woman.
(c) A child.
(d) A new bride.

2. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?
(a) A friend.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

3. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?
(a) “Enlightened.”
(b) “Guilty.”
(c) “Informed.”
(d) “Moved.”

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

5. 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) “Beautiful.”
(c) “Inevitable.”
(d) “Honorable.”

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?

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

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