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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?
(a) “A representative one.”
(b) “A classic one.”
(c) “An imaginative one.”
(d) “A realistic one.”

5. The author states in the Foreword that her concept of breaking the narrative of the novel into parts "didn't work" because many readers "remain touched but not" what?
(a) “Informed.”
(b) “Moved.”
(c) “Guilty.”
(d) “Enlightened.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?

2. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?

3. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?

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

5. 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?

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