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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies in the tunnel accident?
(a) The Deweys
(b) Nel
(c) Tar Baby
(d) The Deweys, Tar Baby, and others

2. Who was Shadrack's only visitor ever?
(a) Sula
(b) Eva
(c) Nel
(d) Hannah

3. Sula and Nel have always been known to be as ________.
(a) Twins
(b) One
(c) Sisters
(d) Lovers

4. What does the groom do?
(a) He's a bricklayer
(b) He's a lawyer
(c) He's a waiter at the Hotel Medallion
(d) He's a seaman

5. What does Sula threaten she will do to Eva?
(a) Drown her
(b) Leave her
(c) Burn her
(d) Cut her

6. Who is immediately upset with Sula over not contacting her in a long time?
(a) Nel
(b) Pearl
(c) Shadrack
(d) Eva

7. What does Nel visit on the way home?
(a) The market
(b) The cemetary
(c) The ice cream parlor
(d) The church

8. Where is Eva going to go, per Sula?
(a) A nursing home
(b) A mental hospital
(c) A hospital
(d) A new country

9. Things are changing in town: many colored people now ____________.
(a) Have children
(b) Have cars
(c) Have jobs
(d) Have rights

10. Who has been arrested for causing an accident, according to Sula's visitor from #139?
(a) BoyBoy
(b) Ajax
(c) The Deweys
(d) Tar Baby

11. Who does the groom sing with?
(a) His schoolmates
(b) A professional company
(c) The men's choir
(d) Himself

12. What is getting renovations?
(a) The boardinghouse
(b) The hospital
(c) The retirement home
(d) The bar

13. Who is ringing the bell as the tunnel collapses?
(a) Eva
(b) Nel
(c) Tar Baby
(d) Shadrack

14. What do the marchers on National Suicide Day begin to do to the tunnel?
(a) Block it off
(b) Build it
(c) Paint it
(d) Destroy it

15. Who does the answer to #171 visit first?
(a) Ellen
(b) Pearl
(c) Julianne
(d) Eva

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sula have an affair with?

2. What is the real name of the man that visits Sula?

3. How does Sula learn of the man's real name?

4. How does Sula response to the attention that the groom gives to Nel?

5. Where is work promised for the people of the town?

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