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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 Janie have in her new home that none of the other blacks in town have?
(a) A feather bed.
(b) A wood-burning stove.
(c) An organ.
(d) A bathtub.

2. What does Joe do to hurt Janie in Chapter 8?
(a) Refuses food from her.
(b) Moves another woman into the house.
(c) Tells the doctor not to tell her anything.
(d) Sells all of her clothes .

3. What actually kills Joe?
(a) He drinks poison.
(b) Janie suffocates him.
(c) A shot fired through the window.
(d) The last effort to lash out at Janie.

4. How does Tea Cake tell Janie to treat Mrs. Turner?
(a) He tells Janie to feel sorry for Mrs. Turner.
(b) He tells Janie to steal Mrs. Turner's money.
(c) He tells Janie to give Mrs. Turner the cold shoulder.
(d) He tells Janie to make friends with her.

5. What do the other children tease Janie about?
(a) The way Janie's grandmother talks.
(b) Janie's good grades in school.
(c) Janie's poor family.
(d) The hound dogs chasing Janie's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname does Janie have as a child?

2. Who does Janie compare Jody to in her speech?

3. When does Janie realize she is not white?

4. What does Nanny do to avoid being whipped by the plantation Mistress?

5. What does Janie do that upsets Joe in the store in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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