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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives to play with Jane at the end of the story in Part I?
(a) Her father.
(b) A friend.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

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

3. The narrator says in Part I that there were no marigolds in the fall of what year?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1936.

4. What pet does Jane first attempt to play with in the story from Part I?
(a) The goldfish.
(b) The cat.
(c) The dog.
(d) The hampster.

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

6. Who is the narrator of Part I?
(a) Claudia MacTeer.
(b) Frieda MacTeer.
(c) Pecola Breedlove.
(d) Poland.

7. The author describes The Bluest Eye as having begun as a bleak narrative of what in the Foreword?
(a) Physical arson.
(b) Psychological murder.
(c) Psychological rape.
(d) Physical burglary.

8. Part I of the novel begins with a story about a girl named Jane and her brother, who is named what?
(a) Dick.
(b) Bill.
(c) James.
(d) John.

9. In Part II, the narrator says that “drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby” of what hotel?
(a) “The Spanish hotel.”
(b) “The English hotel.”
(c) “The Greek hotel.”
(d) “The Polish hotel.”

10. What color is Jane’s dress in the story from Part I?
(a) Red.
(b) Orange.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

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

12. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?
(a) “My advice.”
(b) “My money.”
(c) “My help.”
(d) “Me to die.”

13. The author states in the novel's Foreword, "There can't be anyone, I am sure, who doesn't know what it feels like to be" what "momentarily or for sustained periods of time"?
(a) “Disembodied and alienated.”
(b) “Disliked, even rejected.”
(c) “Victimized, or traumatized.”
(d) “Villain-ized or victimized.”

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

15. What does the narrator say has become of Pecola’s father in Part I?
(a) He has become rich.
(b) He has died.
(c) He’s become President.
(d) He has left town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose image is on the milk cup that Frieda brings to Pecola in Part II?

2. 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?

3. The narrator in Part II says that her family’s house is “old, cold” and what color?

4. What is Pecola’s father’s name, according to the narrator in Part I?

5. How old is Pecola when she lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description in Part II?

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