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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Toni Morrison in the book’s Foreword, “The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from" what?
(a) “A crippled and crippling family.”
(b) “A series of bad choices.”
(c) “Societal pressures.”
(d) “The poorest of luck.”

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?
(a) Over-watered them.
(b) Planted them too deep.
(c) Planted them too shallow.
(d) Under-watered them.

5. How old is the narrator’s sister in Part II?
(a) 10.
(b) 13.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part I says that at first they thought there were no marigolds that fall because Pecola was what?

2. The girl who is described as the narrator’s “next-door friend who lives above her father’s café” in Part I is named Rosemary what?

3. According to the narrator in Part II, who “spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests”?

4. 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?

5. How old does the narrator say she is in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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