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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1957.

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

3. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?
(a) Planning to kill her father.
(b) Having her father’s baby.
(c) Depressed about life.
(d) Praying for bad weather.

4. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?
(a) She cries.
(b) She runs off.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She screams.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?

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. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?

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