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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sula come to understand that she wants to tell Nel?
(a) That she is a good person
(b) That she loved Nel the most
(c) That death does not hurt
(d) That she is sorry

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

3. What does Sula put in her hair to entice the answer to #139?
(a) A red bow
(b) A jeweled barrette
(c) A white ribbon
(d) A green bow

4. What happens to Nel's husband?
(a) He tries to apologize to Nel, but she doesn't accept it.
(b) He leaves her
(c) He disappears
(d) He is killed

5. What does Sula ask of Nel?
(a) If she can make her sweet tea
(b) If she can fill her prescription
(c) If she can forgive her
(d) If she can read to her

6. What does Nel not want Sula to do?
(a) Get better
(b) Stay in the house alone
(c) Committ suicide
(d) Take the medicine

7. Sula returns to Medallion accompanied by a plague of __________.
(a) Mosquitoes
(b) Robins
(c) Ticks
(d) Fleas

8. What is something people do NOT notice about Sula that makes her different?
(a) She has never had childhood illnesses
(b) She has perfectly straight hair
(c) She has all her teeth
(d) She has no bruises or scars

9. What does Eva do to try to protect herself?
(a) Ignores Sula
(b) Locks her door
(c) Moves away
(d) Calls the police

10. Who does Nel realize can not make important decisions for herself?
(a) Pearl
(b) Hannah
(c) Sula
(d) Eva

11. Who does Sula have a dream about after Nel leaves?
(a) Baking Powder Lady
(b) Eva
(c) A woman in a red dress
(d) Chicken Little

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

13. What happens to Medallion when the rain falls and freezes?
(a) It turns silver
(b) It is forgotten
(c) It becomes uninhabitable
(d) It begins to disappear

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

15. Who thinks of sex as wicked, a personal act that is purely for her?
(a) Nel
(b) Eva
(c) Pearl
(d) Sula

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sula get over her grandmother?

2. What does Nel practice asking when she goes to visit Sula?

3. Who is beginning to be beaten again?

4. Who just 'filled a space' for Sula?

5. Who is now the target of nasty rumors?

(see the answer keys)

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