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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1941.

2. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?
(a) Consonants.
(b) Punctuation.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Vowels.

3. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1969.

4. How is Jane’s father described in the story in Part I?
(a) “Old and senile.”
(b) “Skinny and feeble.”
(c) “Big and strong.”
(d) “Weathered and angry.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?

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?

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

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

5. 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"?

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