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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Janie doing when Pheoby comes to see her?
(a) Making dinner.
(b) Writing a letter.
(c) Washing her dress.
(d) Soaking and washing her feet.

2. What is an alternate name for Eatonville?
(a) East Tampa.
(b) The Everglades.
(c) Oxford.
(d) West Maitland.

3. What do the townspeople do when the mule dies?
(a) They bury it in Joe's back yard.
(b) They drag it out to the swamp for a ceremony.
(c) They leave the carcass on Bonner's front porch.
(d) They cook it and eat it.

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

5. What is the subject of most of the jokes told on the porch?
(a) Janie's hair.
(b) Matt Bonner's mule.
(c) Women.
(d) Joe's clothes.

6. What does Tea Cake help Janie with at the end of the night?
(a) He helps her clean the floors.
(b) He helps her onto the train.
(c) He helps her tie up her hair.
(d) He helps her close up the store.

7. Who does Janie compare Jody to in her speech?
(a) King Solomon.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Logan Killicks.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

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

10. Besides Janie's wedding, what other major event occurs in Chapter 3?
(a) Janie has a baby.
(b) Logan dies.
(c) Nanny dies.
(d) Janie divorces Logan.

11. Where is Tea Cake from?
(a) Tampa.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Maitland.

12. What makes Janie take notice of Joe Starks?
(a) He is running into town.
(b) His clothes and the way he walks.
(c) He whistles at her.
(d) His dirty face.

13. What surprises Jody and Janie about Eatonville?
(a) That there are no blacks there.
(b) How small it is.
(c) How large the town is.
(d) How many people live there.

14. Where is everyone headed in Chapter 10?
(a) To a ball game in Winter Park.
(b) To church.
(c) To Orlando for the season.
(d) To a barbecue in Janie's honor.

15. Who is wearing a pair of overalls in Chapter 1?
(a) Pheoby.
(b) Lulu.
(c) Tea Cake.
(d) Janie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What actually kills Joe?

2. What does Janie learn to do in Chapter 10?

3. Why does Joe not allow Janie to participate in the social scene around the store?

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

5. What does Nanny do to avoid being whipped by the plantation Mistress?

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