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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1937.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the town in which the story takes place?
(a) Meadows
(b) Sweet Meadows
(c) Monroe
(d) Medallion

2. When does Helene travel to see her dying grandmother?
(a) 1920
(b) 1921
(c) 1919
(d) 1922

3. How far is Shadrack driven in order to get back home?
(a) He isn't driven anywhere
(b) 10 miles
(c) 22 miles
(d) 1 mile

4. What kind of role does the groom feel he will have when he marries Nel?
(a) A submissive role
(b) A society accepted role
(c) A manly role
(d) A dominant role

5. Who only sees the happiness in the town?
(a) Outsiders
(b) Sula
(c) Eva
(d) The farmer

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the seeds when the people would try to farm in this new land?

2. What does Sula do that convinces the boys of her threat?

3. What is the background of the boys who threaten Nel?

4. Sula has Eva _________.

5. The farmer told the slaves that the ______ were the best part of the land.

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