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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eva Peace's relation to Sula?
(a) Mother
(b) Aunt
(c) Cousin
(d) Grandmother

2. Whose was an honorable death, according to Eva?
(a) BoyBoy's
(b) Plum's
(c) Chicken Little's
(d) Shadrack's

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

4. What holiday begins at the start of January in the town?
(a) Bottom Blessing Day
(b) National Suicide Day
(c) Veteran's Day
(d) New Year's Day

5. Who does Eva credit with saving her life?
(a) Sula
(b) An orderly
(c) Hannah
(d) Nel

Short Answer Questions

1. What is strange about Eva's comb?

2. What frustrates Shadrack so much that he begins to cry?

3. Who is playing chain gang by tying their laces together?

4. What did the slaves do when they heard about the fertile land?

5. How long into marriage does Helene have a daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sula love the attention that Jude gives to Nel?

2. What does Hannah dream of after she cleans the beans for dinner and sees the Deweys with their laces tied together?

3. Why does Nel act so cordial toward Sula after all these years?

4. How did the people of the neighborhood named in #1 come to live there?

5. Who are the characters who have always been known to 'be as one'?

6. Who are Eva's children in the novel "Sula?"

7. What happens to Teapot, the five year old boy that knocks on Sula's door?

8. What causes Shadrack to be so frightened when he is in the hospital?

9. What are some signs that the Bottom is improving after Sula's death?

10. What happened to BoyBoy, Eva's husband?

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