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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Janie wear to Tea Cake's funeral?
(a) Overalls.
(b) A black veil.
(c) A satin dress.
(d) A wedding dress.

2. Who is Mrs. Turner?
(a) The owner of a restaurant in town.
(b) The mayor's wife.
(c) Janie's sister.
(d) Tea Cake's cousin.

3. What does Tea Cake do when he returns to the store that melts Janie's decided coldness toward him?
(a) He asks her to marry him.
(b) He plays an imaginary guitar.
(c) He buys all the sodas she has in the store.
(d) He brings her flowers.

4. What does Tea Cake teach Janie how to do in the Everglades?
(a) How to shoot.
(b) How to play guitar.
(c) How to cook.
(d) How to sew.

5. What does Nunkie do to get Tea Cake's attention?
(a) Nunkie pretends to be sick for Tea Cake's sympathy
(b) Nunkie tells Tea Cake that Janie is cheating on him.
(c) Nunkie dresses provocatively.
(d) Nunkie teases and hits Tea Cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does Janie start wearing in Chapter 12?

2. Where do the workers go to escape the storm?

3. How do the other men feel about Tea Cake's beating Janie?

4. What does Janie leave Eatonville wearing?

5. Tea Cake tells Janie she is enough to make a man forget to _________. (Fill in the blank)

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pheoby react to Janie's story at the end of the novel?

2. What do the workers in the Everglades do for fun?

3. Why do the men get angry at Mrs. Turner?

4. Compare Tea Cake's funeral to Joe Starks'.

5. What things does Tea Cake do to show his love for Janie?

6. Why is Janie jealous of Nunkie?

7. What does Janie say about the horizon at the end of her story?

8. How does Tea Cake die?

9. Who is Annie Tyler?

10. Why does Tea Cake want Janie to work in the fields with him?

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