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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Janie want to seek instead of things?
(a) Safety.
(b) People.
(c) Love.
(d) Freedom.

2. What is the first thing Janie does once Joe is dead?
(a) She covers Joe's face.
(b) She runs to get the doctor.
(c) She breaks his spittoon.
(d) She lets down her hair.

3. What does Janie do to get Joe's attention?
(a) She tells him he is handsome.
(b) She starts pumping the well for water.
(c) She asks if he wants to come in and rest.
(d) She throws a rock at him.

4. Why does Tea Cake say he will come back to visit Janie?
(a) To take her out to dinner.
(b) To pay her for his groceries.
(c) To teach her more about checkers.
(d) To bring her flowers.

5. What does Janie have to do when Logan goes to Lake City for the day?
(a) Go to the grocery store.
(b) Plow the field.
(c) Cut up potatoes.
(d) Pack him a lunch.

6. What does Janie's grandmother do to make things easier for Janie with the other black children?
(a) She yells at the other children.
(b) She buys them some land and their own house.
(c) She sends Janie to a different school.
(d) She homeschools Janie.

7. What does Janie realize she feels for her grandmother?
(a) Hate.
(b) Love.
(c) Pity.
(d) Jealousy.

8. Where does Janie get married?
(a) At the Baptist church.
(b) In Nanny's parlor.
(c) In the Washburns' back yard.
(d) In Miami.

9. What nickname does Janie have as a child?
(a) Alphabet.
(b) Baby Girl.
(c) Sassy.
(d) Little One.

10. Who does Nanny propose that Janie marry?
(a) Brody Jenks.
(b) Johnny Taylor.
(c) Logan Killicks.
(d) Nathaniel Washburn.

11. Where does Janie get a doctor from?
(a) The Mayo Clinic.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Maitland.
(d) Georgia.

12. What does Janie compare Jody's body to?
(a) The "change uh life."
(b) Sadness.
(c) "A horse rump."
(d) "A nekkid grandpa."

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

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

15. What do the men who try to court Janie really want?
(a) Her money.
(b) Her body.
(c) Her store.
(d) Her wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. After they've been married for about a year, what does Logan tell Janie she can now do for herself?

2. How do the men in town feel about Jody toward the end of Chapter 5?

3. What does Logan want Janie to do while she is making breakfast?

4. Why doesn't Janie leave Jody?

5. What does Janie like about the store?

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