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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) James.
(d) John.

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

3. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
(a) 6.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

4. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?
(a) MacTeer.
(b) Williams.
(c) Villanucci.
(d) Yacobowski.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car is Rosemary sitting in while she eats bread and butter in the beginning of Part II?

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

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

4. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?

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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