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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 "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?
(a) “Collective memory.”
(b) “Justice.”
(c) “Time.”
(d) “Disqualifying metaphors.”

2. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) A child.
(b) An old woman.
(c) An old man.
(d) A new bride.

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

4. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?
(a) Spacing.
(b) Every other word.
(c) Punctuation and capitalization.
(d) Every noun.

5. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?
(a) Planted them too shallow.
(b) Under-watered them.
(c) Planted them too deep.
(d) Over-watered them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?

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

4. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?

5. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?

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