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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Nanny call the "very prong all us black women gits hung on"?
(a) Family.
(b) Safety.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

4. How does Hezekiah behave in the store?
(a) He pretends to own the store.
(b) He acts like a harmless imitation of Joe.
(c) He is lazy and will not work.
(d) He is meek and like a servant to Janie.

5. Why does Joe get mad at Janie in Chapter 6?
(a) He cannot find a bill of lading in the store.
(b) She has an affair with another man.
(c) She yells at him on the porch.
(d) She wears lipstick to church.

6. What is the name of the family Nanny works for?
(a) Smith.
(b) Little.
(c) Washburn.
(d) Crawford.

7. What does Janie find unattractive about her husband in Chapter 3?
(a) He doesn't wash his feet before bed.
(b) His toenails.
(c) All of the above.
(d) His belly.

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

9. What does Joe do to hurt Janie in Chapter 8?
(a) Tells the doctor not to tell her anything.
(b) Moves another woman into the house.
(c) Refuses food from her.
(d) Sells all of her clothes .

10. Whose house has no roof?
(a) Pheoby's.
(b) Death's.
(c) Joe's.
(d) Janie's.

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

12. Why doesn't Janie leave Jody?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is afraid he will find her.
(c) She truly loves him.
(d) She has nowhere to go.

13. What item of Joe's are the residents of Eatonville envious of?
(a) His silk suit.
(b) His feathered hat.
(c) His gold spittoon.
(d) His wife.

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

15. What is Janie's response to Joe's anger in the store after he chastises her?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She ignores him all day.
(c) She throws the tobacco plug at him.
(d) She gets fed up and makes fun of his aging body.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the subject of most of the jokes told on the porch?

3. What do the men who try to court Janie really want?

4. What does Joe do after the big fight with Janie?

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

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