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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. This neighborhood of the town started off as a "________."
(a) Wreck
(b) Promise
(c) Whisper
(d) Joke

2. What is the name of the child who becomes constipated?
(a) Plum
(b) Pearl
(c) Helene
(d) Hannah

3. What does Shadrack do on Tuesdays and Fridays?
(a) Yells
(b) Sees his children
(c) Threatens to commit suicide
(d) Sells fish

4. What happened to the seeds when the people would try to farm in this new land?
(a) They wouldn't sprout
(b) They would wash down the hill
(c) They would dry out
(d) They blow away.

5. What does Sula threaten the Deweys with?
(a) Telling on them
(b) Not feeding them
(c) Giving them a bath
(d) Cutting them with a knife

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the town being destroyed to make room for?

2. Who does Eva credit with saving her life?

3. Who is the protector in her friendship?

4. What is the year this holiday begins?

5. Who is the half white, possibly all white tenant that comes to Eva's in 1921?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the second strange thing that happens in the town?

2. What are some of the rumors that begin to fly about Sula?

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

4. What happens to Chicken Little?

5. What neighborhood is "Sula" set in?

6. What is the story of Tar Baby?

7. What is Eva's response when Sula comes to visit her?

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

9. Why does Helene return to see her grandmother?

10. What does Nel do because she is so upset about her interaction with Eva?

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