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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who owns the grocery store down the street from Pecola in Part II?
(a) Mr. Buford.
(b) Mr. Yacobowski.
(c) Woodrow Cain.
(d) Miss Dunion.

2. 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.”

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

4. In what year does the author say in the Foreword that she began the “story” that would eventually lead to The Bluest Eye?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1957.

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

6. Where is Pecola’s father when she goes to stay with the MacTeer family in Part II?
(a) In Europe.
(b) In Mexico.
(c) In jail.
(d) In the hospital.

7. How old is the narrator’s sister in Part II?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 13.

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

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

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

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

12. 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) “Legitimate.”
(b) “Honorable.”
(c) “Inevitable.”
(d) “Beautiful.”

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

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

15. In the book’s Foreword, the author writes that the book arose from a conversation she had with a childhood friend who wished that she had what?
(a) Freckles.
(b) Green eyes.
(c) Blond hair.
(d) Blue eyes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?

4. What magic trick does Mr. Henry perform when he meets the narrator and her sister in Part II?

5. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

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