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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the house have no roof?
(a) A tornado has hit Pheoby's house.
(b) Death needs no protection from the winds.
(c) Janie has moved into a shack by the water with no roof.
(d) Joe is too poor to fix the hole in the roof.

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

3. What object in nature is symbolic of Janie's sexual awakening?
(a) A sunrise.
(b) A blossoming tree.
(c) A ripe fruit.
(d) A sunset.

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

5. Why does Logan go to Lake City?
(a) He's having an affair.
(b) To look at some land.
(c) To get a new plow.
(d) To buy a mule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol returns in Chapter 11 as a feeling that Tea Cake awakens in Janie?

2. What symbolic object does Janie keep returning to in the days before her wedding?

3. Who does Nanny propose that Janie marry?

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

5. What does Joe's death mean to Janie?

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