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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Howard’s Coal Company.
(b) Murphy's Coal Company.
(c) Johnson's Coal Company.
(d) Zick’s Coal Company.

3. In the third narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what has been taken away?
(a) Spacing.
(b) Punctuation.
(c) Consonants.
(d) Vowels.

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

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

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

7. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
(a) Green and white.
(b) Gold and blue.
(c) Blue and green.
(d) Green and gold.

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

9. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?
(a) He gets mad.
(b) He smiles.
(c) He says he is too busy.
(d) He cries.

10. 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) “God would save them.”
(c) “Their luck would change.”
(d) “They were ugly.”

11. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1927.

12. The narrator in Part II describes the adults as treating illness in children with what?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Sympathy.

13. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?
(a) Children.
(b) The elderly.
(c) A female.
(d) A male.

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

15. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) An old man.
(b) A child.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A new bride.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?

2. On what street had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?

3. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?

4. In speaking of Pecola’s father in Part I, the narrator says, “Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his” what?

5. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in Part II?

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