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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Joe in Chapter 7?
(a) 42.
(b) 50.
(c) 65.
(d) 80.

2. What does Janie do in Eatonville?
(a) She is a nanny for a white family.
(b) She manages the store.
(c) She quilts with the other women.
(d) She sells cakes and pies from her home.

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

4. What does Janie like about the store?
(a) That she gets to work with Joe.
(b) The people who visit her.
(c) The independence she feels by running the store.
(d) The conversations on the porch.

5. What does Hurston compare Janie to in Chapter 7?
(a) A child.
(b) A rut in the road.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) A mule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Janie keep waiting for after her marriage?

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

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

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

5. What does Janie find unattractive about her husband in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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