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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

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

3. Why do the other black children pick on Janie all the time?
(a) Janie gets better grades than them.
(b) Janie's clothes are better than the other kids' clothes.
(c) Janie makes fun of the other girls.
(d) Janie talks differently than the other kids.

4. How old do the neighbors think Janie is when she returns home in Chapter 1?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 18.
(d) 55.

5. What symbolic object does Janie keep returning to in the days before her wedding?
(a) The rose bush.
(b) The pear tree.
(c) The school yard.
(d) The front gate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the family Nanny works for?

2. What does everyone call the "boy" Janie left with?

3. What is Pheoby's husband's name?

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

5. What does Janie have in her new home that none of the other blacks in town have?

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