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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
(a) “When.”
(b) “Why.”
(c) “How.”
(d) “What.”

2. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?
(a) “A stomach.”
(b) “A brain.”
(c) “Legs.”
(d) “Arms.”

3. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) White.

4. What does Pecola’s mother demand that Pecola’s father get out of bed and go get for her in their argument in Part II?
(a) Coal.
(b) Flour.
(c) Milk.
(d) Eggs.

5. 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 accurate.
(b) That the hatred is unjustified.
(c) That the hatred is not accurate.
(d) That the hatred is justified.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in the novel's Foreword that when she began writing The Bluest Eye, she was interested in the "far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as" what?

2. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?

3. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" 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. What kind of car is Rosemary sitting in while she eats bread and butter in the beginning of Part II?

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