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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) “Honorable.”
(b) “Inevitable.”
(c) “Legitimate.”
(d) “Beautiful.”

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

4. Which movie does Maureen say the name Pecola is from in Part III?
(a) East of Eden.
(b) Vertigo.
(c) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
(d) Imitation of Life.

5. Geraldine lives with her family next to the playground of what school, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) George Washington Irving School.
(b) Benjamin Franklin School.
(c) Abraham Lincoln School.
(d) Washington Irving School.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?

3. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?

4. In what magazine does Claudia imagine the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken reading in Part III?

5. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?

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