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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sula do that convinces the boys of her threat?
(a) Swings the weapon at them
(b) Cuts off the tip of her own finger
(c) Fires the gun
(d) Hurts one of the boys

2. What word does Nel want Helene to translate for her?
(a) Volor
(b) Vonir
(c) Voulez
(d) Voir

3. Who goes to war in 1917 and is never the same after he returns?
(a) Plum
(b) Julian
(c) Mr. Suggs
(d) Jude

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

5. Why would the person in #107 have watched?
(a) She wanted to help
(b) She was interested
(c) They were odd like that
(d) He was responsible

6. What does Shadrack remember the river being full of?
(a) Plants
(b) Water
(c) Stones
(d) Fish

7. Why is Helene nervous about traveling?
(a) She has never left home
(b) She doesn't want to travel alone
(c) She is afraid of the water
(d) She doesn't like trains

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

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

10. Who does Nel strike up a friendship with?
(a) Julian
(b) Helen
(c) Eva
(d) Sula

11. What is so special about the item in #97?
(a) No whites for luck
(b) It is fresh made
(c) It is about Eva
(d) It was crafted by Hannah

12. Whose grandmother is trying to keep her away from a certain place?
(a) Helene's
(b) Nel's
(c) Eva's
(d) Sula's

13. What is waiting for Shadrack when he wakes up?
(a) His meal
(b) A book
(c) A friend
(d) A waitress

14. What is the only response of Shadrack to Sula?
(a) Never
(b) Always
(c) Sometimes it happens
(d) I won't tell

15. What frustrates Shadrack so much that he begins to cry?
(a) His papers
(b) His money
(c) His boots
(d) His friend

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people assume as Shadrack is walking down the road?

2. Who sees the trip as a way to begin being an individual?

3. What does Sula threaten the Deweys with?

4. What does Eva say she didn't notice that caused her to have poor judgment?

5. What does Eva douse Plum with?

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