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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Logan want Janie to do while she is making breakfast?
(a) Help him shoe a horse.
(b) Bring him some water.
(c) Help him move the manure pile.
(d) Go into town for groceries.

2. What does Logan say that he and Nanny have done to Janie?
(a) Ruined her appetite.
(b) Raised her from birth.
(c) Spoiled her.
(d) Beaten her.

3. Who is Janie's best friend?
(a) Annie.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Lulu.
(d) Pheoby.

4. What song is played at Joe's funeral?
(a) "All by Myself."
(b) "Amazing Grace."
(c) "When the Saints Go Marching In."
(d) "Safe in the Arms of Jesus."

5. What is the first thing Nanny thinks Janie is upset about when Janie comes to visit her in Chapter 3?
(a) She thinks Janie is sick.
(b) She thinks Janie's husband has been beating her.
(c) She thinks Janie is pregnant.
(d) She thinks Janie will leave Logan.

6. 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.

7. What event in Chapter 2 signals the end of Janie's childhood?
(a) Janie leaving home.
(b) Nanny telling her it's time to get married.
(c) Johnny Taylor kissing her.
(d) Janie graduating from high school.

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

9. What does Hurston compare Janie's funeral veil to?
(a) A party mask.
(b) A burial shroud.
(c) A bridal veil.
(d) A wall of stone and steel.

10. Who does Janie marry in Chapter 3?
(a) Logan Killicks.
(b) Tea Cake.
(c) Joe Brown.
(d) Hezekia.

11. What does Janie do at home after the funeral?
(a) She burns all of Joe's belongings.
(b) She packs her bags to leave town.
(c) She burns her head rags.
(d) She cries herself to sleep.

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

13. 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.

14. What does Janie do instead of finishing breakfast?
(a) She goes back to bed.
(b) She leaves to meet up with Joe and run away with him.
(c) She helps Logan with some chores.
(d) She goes into town for groceries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tea Cake's given name?

2. What does Hurston compare Janie to in Chapter 7?

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

4. What does Joe make Janie do (out of jealousy)?

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

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