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

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

2. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
(a) 14.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

3. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?
(a) Pecola.
(b) Sammy.
(c) Mildred.
(d) Claudia.

4. Who calls Mrs. MacTeer and tells her that Claudia, Pecola and Frieda are “playing nasty” in Part II?
(a) Ada Williams.
(b) Rosemary.
(c) Paula Williams.
(d) Miss Dunion.

5. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Orange.

6. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?
(a) “Propertied black people.”
(b) “Poor Hispanic people.”
(c) “Poor white people.”
(d) “Rich white people.”

7. What actress does Claudia claim to like, causing her sister and Pecola to give her a puzzled look and consider her incomprehensible, in Part II?
(a) Jane Withers.
(b) Marylin Monroe.
(c) Audrey Hepburn.
(d) Katherine Hepburn.

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

9. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?
(a) The hampster.
(b) The cat.
(c) The goldfish.
(d) The dog.

10. Where is the abandoned store that is described in Part II as “on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street”?
(a) Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) Columbus, Ohio.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Lorain, Ohio.

11. How old does the narrator say she is in Part II?
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

12. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s house has a door that is what color?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

13. 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) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Chuck E. White.
(c) Fred Astaire.
(d) Bojangles.

14. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?
(a) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(b) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(c) “Villain-ized or victimized.”
(d) “Victimized, or traumatized.”

15. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?
(a) Depressed about life.
(b) Having her father’s baby.
(c) Planning to kill her father.
(d) Praying for bad weather.

Short Answer 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?

2. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?

3. The author describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?

4. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?

5. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?

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