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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the story of Jane from Part I, Jane’s family lives in a house that is what colors?
2. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?
3. In the second narrative of the Jane story in Part I, what is missing?
4. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?
5. The narrator in Part I claims that “one must take refuge in” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the primary setting for the novel? How is the author connected to this setting?
2. Describe the narrative style of the novel. Who narrates the opening passages before “Autumn”?
3. According to some critics, the three versions of the reader presented on the first page of The Bluest Eye represent three lifestyles presented in the novel. What does the first version represent?
4. How is the apartment of the Breedlove family described in “Here is the House…”?
5. For what reason does the Breedlove family stay in the apartment, according to the narrator in “Here is the House…”?
6. What does Pecola pray for every night, according to the narrator in “Here is the Family…”? Why?
7. What commotion begins when Rosemary “tattles” on Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola for “being nasty” in “Autumn”?
8. Who can be seen in Part I as characters that face trouble assimilating into “white society’s standards of beauty”?
9. What do Claudia and Frieda receive at the beginning of the school year in “Autumn”? What conversation consumes “the grownups” in the opening of this chapter?
10. What foreshadowing is revealed by the narrator in the end of Part I?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What adjectives and descriptive words are used in “See the Cat…” to describe the “types of girls” who come to Lorain from places like Mobile, Marietta, etc.? How do these girls differ from the “black girls” that Claudia and Frieda consider themselves? Do you think that the narrator views the girls as better than them, or simply as perceived as better?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the Foreword to The Bluest Eye. Discuss the author of the work and the overview of Morrison’s career as detailed in the text. What inspired Morrison to write the novel? What was Morrison’s objective in writing the book? Why did Toni Morrison contest the slogan “Black is Beautiful”? How does this viewpoint lend itself to the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the symbolism presented in “Autumn” and discuss the different meanings of the symbols presented. What are symbols that represent the theme of “growing up” in the novel? How does Pecola’s first menstruation represent this theme metaphorically?
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