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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) “They did not deserve any better.”
(b) “They were ugly.”
(c) “Their luck would change.”
(d) “God would save them.”

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

4. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The Spanish hotel.”
(b) “The Polish hotel.”
(c) “The English hotel.”
(d) “The Greek hotel.”

5. On what street had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Fifth Street.
(b) Second Street.
(c) Thirteenth Street.
(d) Eighth Street.

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

7. 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) “Victimized, or traumatized.”
(b) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(c) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(d) “Villain-ized or victimized.”

8. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?
(a) She runs off.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She screams.
(d) She cries.

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

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

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

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

13. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Cholly Breedlove.
(b) Anderson Breedlove.
(c) Soaphead Church.
(d) Sammy Breedlove.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author states in the book’s Foreword, “Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was" what?

3. Who is the narrator of Part I?

4. Mrs. MacTeer exclaims during her diatribe in Part II, “I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with” what?

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

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