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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Woodrow Cain.
(b) Mr. Buford.
(c) Miss Dunion.
(d) Mr. Yacobowski.

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

4. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?

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?

3. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?

4. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?

5. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?

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