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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 runs off.
(d) She cries.

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

3. 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?
(a) Green eyes.
(b) Blond hair.
(c) Blue eyes.
(d) Freckles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?

2. What is the narrator of Part II’s sister’s name?

3. The narrator in Part II describes the adults as treating illness in children with what?

4. Who does Frieda say told her about menstruation in Part II?

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

(see the answer key)

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