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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe ask Janie to do?
(a) Leave Logan and marry him.
(b) Kill her husband.
(c) Mend his socks.
(d) Cut her hair off.

2. What do the townspeople do when the mule dies?
(a) They drag it out to the swamp for a ceremony.
(b) They leave the carcass on Bonner's front porch.
(c) They cook it and eat it.
(d) They bury it in Joe's back yard.

3. What does Nanny do to avoid being whipped by the plantation Mistress?
(a) She runs away with the Master.
(b) She calls the police.
(c) She runs away into the woods with her baby.
(d) She kills the Mistress.

4. What does Janie keep waiting for after her marriage?
(a) To fall in love with her husband.
(b) To have a baby.
(c) To move to another city.
(d) To get a new dress.

5. What does Joe's death mean to Janie?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Grief.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Janie's mother become pregnant with Janie?

2. What makes the Mistress suspect that Nanny's newborn baby is part white?

3. What do Tea Cake and Janie drink at the store?

4. How does Jody deal with his aging?

5. How does Hezekiah behave in the store?

(see the answer key)

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