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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Janie's mother become pregnant with Janie?
(a) Nanny sells her to a white man.
(b) She was raped by the school teacher.
(c) She spent the night with a white man.
(d) She married a soldier.

2. When does Janie realize she is not white?
(a) When she sees a picture of herself with the white children.
(b) When her grandmother tells her.
(c) When the kids at school tease her.
(d) When she looks in the mirror.

3. What do the men who try to court Janie really want?
(a) Her wisdom.
(b) Her store.
(c) Her money.
(d) Her body.

4. What does Janie find unattractive about her husband in Chapter 3?
(a) His toenails.
(b) All of the above.
(c) He doesn't wash his feet before bed.
(d) His belly.

5. When does Janie want to marry Tea Cake?
(a) Once she has a baby.
(b) As soon as she can sell the store.
(c) As soon as Tea Cake gets a job.
(d) At dawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men who work with Tea Cake think of Mr. Turner?

2. What does Nanny call the "very prong all us black women gits hung on"?

3. Why does Mrs. Turner like Janie?

4. What is the cause of Joe's illness.

5. What does Janie do instead of finishing breakfast?

(see the answer key)

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