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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?
(a) He’s become President.
(b) He has died.
(c) He has left town.
(d) He has become rich.

6. 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?
(a) “A top hat.”
(b) “A wristwatch.”
(c) “Side pockets.”
(d) “A wheelbarrow.”

7. Who is described as “still trotting up and down Sixteenth Street talking to herself” in Part II?
(a) Baby Jenny.
(b) Miss Forrester.
(c) Miss Bertha.
(d) Auntie Julia.

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

9. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?
(a) MacTeer.
(b) Yacobowski.
(c) Villanucci.
(d) Williams.

10. 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 English hotel.”
(c) “The Polish hotel.”
(d) “The Greek hotel.”

11. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “A crippled and crippling family.”
(b) “The poorest of luck.”
(c) “A series of bad choices.”
(d) “Societal pressures.”

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

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

14. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?
(a) “The coal stove.”
(b) “The bed.”
(c) “The couch.”
(d) “The kitchen sink.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?

2. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?

3. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?

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

5. What does Jane’s mother do when Jane asks her to play in the story from Part I?

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