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

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

3. The author states in the Foreword, “In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause I chose a unique situation, not" what?
(a) “An imaginative one.”
(b) “A representative one.”
(c) “A realistic one.”
(d) “A classic one.”

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

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?
(a) Green eyes.
(b) Freckles.
(c) Blond hair.
(d) Blue eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator of Part I?

2. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?

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

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

5. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?

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