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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the cause of Joe's illness.
(a) He has been poisoned.
(b) His kidneys are shutting down.
(c) He drinks too much.
(d) He has a broken heart.

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

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

7. What do Janie's neighbors want to know about her?
(a) Where her boyfriend is.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Where all her money is.
(d) Why she has come home.

8. The first line of the novel is "Ships at a distance have every man's _________ on board." (Fill in the blank)
(a) Wife.
(b) Wish.
(c) Cargo.
(d) Sorrow.

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

10. How did Janie's mother become pregnant with Janie?
(a) She spent the night with a white man.
(b) She married a soldier.
(c) Nanny sells her to a white man.
(d) She was raped by the school teacher.

11. What action does Hurston compare Jody's harsh words to Janie in the store to?
(a) Hugging a child.
(b) Kicking a mule.
(c) Beating a dog.
(d) Stripping a woman on a crowded street.

12. How old is Janie in Chapter 7?
(a) 40.
(b) 35.
(c) 55.
(d) 29.

13. How many acres does Janie's new home sit on?
(a) 10 acres.
(b) 1 acre.
(c) 60 acres.
(d) 100 acres.

14. What actually kills Joe?
(a) Janie suffocates him.
(b) He drinks poison.
(c) The last effort to lash out at Janie.
(d) A shot fired through the window.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does everyone call the "boy" Janie left with?

2. How does Jody deal with his aging?

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

4. What does Janie eat for dinner in Chapter 1?

5. What is Janie doing when Pheoby comes to see her?

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