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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the boy who comes to Sula's door to ask for bottles?
(a) Chicken Baby
(b) Teapot
(c) Tar Baby
(d) Dewey

2. Who had to come in to take care of Sula's arrangements?
(a) Eva
(b) White people
(c) The police
(d) Nel

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

4. Who does Sula have an affair with?
(a) BoyBoy
(b) Nel
(c) Tar Baby
(d) Jude

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

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

7. No one did a thing about Sula's death until ________ called the police and the hospital.
(a) Nel
(b) Hannah
(c) Eva
(d) Pearl

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

9. How long is it between visits for Sula and Nel?
(a) 2 years
(b) 10 days
(c) 3 years
(d) 4 years

10. Who walks through the town to visit people at the nursing home?
(a) Nel
(b) Pearl
(c) Eva
(d) Hannah

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

12. Who comes to Sula's door, bringing her milk bottles?
(a) Tar Baby
(b) Ajax
(c) BoyBoy
(d) Jude

13. Where is work promised for the people of the town?
(a) At the boardwalk
(b) On the docks
(c) At the railroad
(d) On the new tunnel

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

15. What job does the groom really want?
(a) Helping animals
(b) Working on the road
(c) None
(d) Becoming a doctor

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sula help in the wedding planning?

2. Why is Sula unrepentant about her affair? Why does she think Nel should just get over it?

3. Sula returns to Medallion accompanied by a plague of __________.

4. Things are changing in town: many colored people now ____________.

5. Who always overlooks the groom for work?

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