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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?
(a) The cat.
(b) The hampster.
(c) The goldfish.
(d) The dog.

2. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?
(a) “The savage animals.”
(b) “The infinite sky.”
(c) “The sands of time.”
(d) “The unyielding earth.”

3. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?
(a) Children.
(b) A female.
(c) A male.
(d) The elderly.

4. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?
(a) Dick.
(b) Bill.
(c) John.
(d) James.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?

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

3. 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"?

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

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

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