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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
(a) 11.
(b) 7.
(c) 14.
(d) 6.

4. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

5. The author describes the burgeoning self-esteem of children as “before their ego has” what, in the book’s Foreword?
(a) “A brain.”
(b) “A stomach.”
(c) “Arms.”
(d) “Legs.”

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

7. What is the name of Pecola’s brother in the novel?
(a) Henry.
(b) Woodrow.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Sammy.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

14. Where is “that trifling Peggy” said to be from in Part II?
(a) Lorain.
(b) Meridian.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Elyria.

15. 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) Having her father’s baby.
(d) Praying for bad weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?

2. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?

3. What kind of car is Rosemary sitting in while she eats bread and butter in the beginning of Part II?

4. The narrator in Part I says that for years she believed the reason the marigolds didn’t bloom was because she had done what?

5. What is Mr. Henry’s last name?

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