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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 “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?
(a) A male.
(b) The elderly.
(c) A female.
(d) Children.

2. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?
(a) He says he is too busy.
(b) He cries.
(c) He gets mad.
(d) He smiles.

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

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"?
(a) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(b) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(c) “Victimized, or traumatized.”
(d) “Villain-ized or victimized.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

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

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

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

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"?

(see the answer key)

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