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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?
(a) “Immoral thinking.”
(b) “Lust or despair.”
(c) “Criminal behavior.”
(d) “Evil and sadness.”

2. 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”?
(a) Fred Astaire.
(b) Bojangles.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Chuck E. White.

3. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?
(a) Yacobowski.
(b) Dunion.
(c) Washington.
(d) Whitcomb.

4. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1965.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Near what local coal company does the narrator say she sometimes goes in the evenings with grown-ups to fill burlap sacks with coal in Part II?

3. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?

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

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?

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