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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Helene and Nel travel to?
(a) Massachusetts
(b) Austin
(c) Mexico City
(d) New Orleans

2. Who is playing chain gang by tying their laces together?
(a) Nel and her sister
(b) Sula and some boys
(c) Nel and Sula
(d) The Deweys

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

4. Who witnessed the horrific burning?
(a) Shadrack
(b) Sula
(c) The Deweys
(d) Nel

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

6. What does Eva sit on?
(a) A stool
(b) A hammock
(c) A wagon
(d) A chair

7. What do people assume as Shadrack is walking down the road?
(a) He is a visitor
(b) He is drunk
(c) He is begging
(d) He is in charge

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

9. What does Sula fret over?
(a) Eva's behavior
(b) The newlyweds living at the house
(c) The loss of Nel
(d) The Deweys

10. Who shows up and is pressured into marrying Helene?
(a) BoyBoy
(b) Jude
(c) Wiley Wright
(d) Julian

11. How long was Shadrack in the hospital when he was?
(a) A month
(b) One year
(c) A week
(d) One day

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

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

14. Whose house is classy, proper, and clean?
(a) Nel's
(b) Anna's
(c) Eva's
(d) Sula's

15. What does the strong wind bring, which is strange to the town?
(a) Heavy humidity
(b) Drier heat
(c) Hurricane
(d) Snow

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shadrack remember the river being full of?

2. What is the problem with the answer to #103?

3. Who was Eva's husband?

4. What kind of work would it take to make the land productive?

5. How old is Sula when Chicken Little dies?

(see the answer keys)

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