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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?
(a) Adoring them.
(b) Dismembering them.
(c) Playing house with them.
(d) Playing dress-up with them.

6. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?
(a) Plaid skirts and vitamins.
(b) Brown stockings and cod liver oil.
(c) White shirts and pencils.
(d) Black shoes and books.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who is the narrator of Part I?
(a) Frieda MacTeer.
(b) Claudia MacTeer.
(c) Pecola Breedlove.
(d) Poland.

13. What kind of car is Rosemary sitting in while she eats bread and butter in the beginning of Part II?
(a) A 1930 Chevrolet.
(b) A 1939 Buick.
(c) A 1932 Ford.
(d) A 1937 Cadillac.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the Foreword, “In trying to dramatize the devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause I chose a unique situation, not" what?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?

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