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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 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) “Guilty.”
(b) “Enlightened.”
(c) “Informed.”
(d) “Moved.”

2. 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) Over-watered them.
(c) Planted them too deep.
(d) Under-watered them.

3. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?
(a) “Something to cherish.”
(b) “Something that could inspire.”
(c) “Something that could remind.”
(d) “Something one could do.”

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

5. 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) Depressed about life.
(c) Having her father’s baby.
(d) Praying for bad weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?

2. Who is the narrator of 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. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?

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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