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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year does the author say The Bluest Eye began to take the form of a book in the Foreword?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1965.

4. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the “most delicate member of society” in the book’s Foreword?
(a) An old man.
(b) A new bride.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A child.

5. What does Jane’s father do when Jane asks him to play in the story from Part I?
(a) He says he is too busy.
(b) He smiles.
(c) He gets mad.
(d) He cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Part I, “What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and” what?

2. What does Toni Morrison refer to as the most “vulnerable member” of society in the novel’s Foreword?

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

4. The author describes "seeing oneself preserved in the amber of" what, in the novel's Foreword?

5. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?

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