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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the neighbor dump onto Hannah?
(a) A cup of lemonade
(b) A vat of gravy
(c) A bucket of ice
(d) A tub of tomatoes and water

2. Who lives in the neighborhood that is the answer to #1?
(a) The children
(b) The whites
(c) The farmers
(d) The Negroes

3. Who promised freedom to the slaves?
(a) A white farmer
(b) BoyBoy
(c) Sula
(d) Eva

4. The slaves did the work and then asked for the "_________."
(a) Contract
(b) Payment
(c) Money
(d) Reward

5. What is the name of the neighborhood in which most of the story takes place?
(a) Bottom
(b) Below
(c) Top
(d) Beneath

6. This neighborhood of the town started off as a "________."
(a) Promise
(b) Whisper
(c) Wreck
(d) Joke

7. What is the newest theme of Sula and Nel's interest?
(a) Ice cream
(b) Soda
(c) Makeup
(d) Men

8. The neighborhood used to be where people would hear singing and music and see what?
(a) Reading
(b) Art
(c) Hard work
(d) Dancing

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

10. What is the year this holiday begins?
(a) 1931
(b) 1920
(c) 1922
(d) 1919

11. What holiday begins at the start of January in the town?
(a) Veteran's Day
(b) Bottom Blessing Day
(c) New Year's Day
(d) National Suicide Day

12. What does Sula threaten the boys with?
(a) A gun
(b) A paring knife
(c) A bat
(d) A slingshot

13. What is the word Sula uses to describe Shadrack's house?
(a) Normal
(b) Huge
(c) Scary
(d) Messy

14. What is the name of the child who becomes constipated?
(a) Plum
(b) Pearl
(c) Helene
(d) Hannah

15. When was Shadrack in the war?
(a) 1922
(b) 1917
(c) 1912
(d) 1918

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so special about the item in #97?

2. Who shows up and is pressured into marrying Helene?

3. How much money is Shadrack given after his release?

4. Where do Helene and Nel travel to?

5. Why would the person in #107 have watched?

(see the answer keys)

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