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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
(a) Gold and blue.
(b) Green and white.
(c) Green and gold.
(d) Blue and green.

2. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?
(a) Every other word.
(b) Punctuation and capitalization.
(c) Spacing.
(d) Every noun.

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

4. The author states in the book's Foreword that when one is "hated for things we have no control over and cannot change," it is some consolation to know what?
(a) That the hatred is justified.
(b) That the hatred is not accurate.
(c) That the hatred is unjustified.
(d) That the hatred is accurate.

5. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Cholly Breedlove.
(b) Soaphead Church.
(c) Sammy Breedlove.
(d) Anderson Breedlove.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?

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

3. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?

4. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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