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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joe not allow Janie to participate in the social scene around the store?
(a) He is afraid she will get too upset.
(b) He wants her to be jealous.
(c) He says she needs to tend the store.
(d) He says it is beneath her.

2. What does Joe want the town to have that the men of Eatonville say the white men won't give him?
(a) A mayor.
(b) A church.
(c) A paved road.
(d) A post office.

3. What does everyone call the "boy" Janie left with?
(a) Rum Pan.
(b) Tea Cake.
(c) Baby Boy.
(d) Big Mouth.

4. What does Tea Cake say that Nunkie did to draw him away from the crowd in the fields?
(a) She made the job foreman move him.
(b) She threw his hat across the field.
(c) She took his working tickets.
(d) She told him he was supposed to work in another area.

5. Tea Cake tells Janie she is enough to make a man forget to _________. (Fill in the blank)
(a) Go to work.
(b) Wake up in the morning.
(c) Get old and die.
(d) Breathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tea Cake do when he returns to the store that melts Janie's decided coldness toward him?

2. How old is Joe in Chapter 7?

3. What does Janie's husband do for Janie that Nanny says won't last for long?

4. Who does Janie think of as a warning about what Tea Cake might do to her?

5. What surprises Jody and Janie about Eatonville?

(see the answer key)

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