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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose image is on the milk cup that Frieda brings to Pecola in Part II?
(a) Shirley Temple’s.
(b) B.B. King's.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt’s.
(d) Henry Ford's.

3. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?
(a) Bill.
(b) John.
(c) James.
(d) Dick.

4. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?
(a) He pulls a rabbit from a hat.
(b) He makes a penny disappear.
(c) He saws a lady in half.
(d) He makes his thumb disappear.

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

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

7. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?
(a) Maureen Peal.
(b) Rosemary Villanucci.
(c) Frieda MacTeer.
(d) Pecola Breedlove.

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

9. With whom had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Miss Delia Jones.
(b) Miss Erkmeister.
(c) Miss Marie.
(d) Miss Poland.

10. 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?
(a) Johnson's Coal Company.
(b) Howard’s Coal Company.
(c) Zick’s Coal Company.
(d) Murphy's Coal Company.

11. 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?
(a) “The savage animals.”
(b) “The unyielding earth.”
(c) “The infinite sky.”
(d) “The sands of time.”

12. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?
(a) Henry.
(b) Sammy.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Woodrow.

13. The author describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?
(a) Psychological rape.
(b) Psychological murder.
(c) Physical arson.
(d) Physical burglary.

14. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?
(a) Her mother.
(b) A friend.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

15. 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) Eggs.
(b) Flour.
(c) Coal.
(d) Milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?

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. The narrator states in Part II, “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed” what?

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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