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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been Joe's source of power so far in the novel?
(a) Money.
(b) Physical force.
(c) Janie's love.
(d) Friendship.

2. What does Janie eat for dinner in Chapter 1?
(a) Vegetable stew.
(b) Turkey and dressing.
(c) Mulatto rice.
(d) A ham sandwich.

3. What do the men compare beating a woman to?
(a) Stepping on baby chickens.
(b) Teaching a lesson.
(c) Cooking a hamburger.
(d) Sinning against God.

4. What is Tea Cake's given name?
(a) Sam Malone.
(b) Logan Killicks.
(c) Vergible Woods.
(d) Sam Smith.

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

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

8. Who comes into the store while everyone is away?
(a) Pheoby.
(b) Hezekiah.
(c) Tea Cake.
(d) Joe.

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

10. Nanny tells Janie not to worry about love when she has _______. (Fill in the blank)
(a) A new house.
(b) Money.
(c) Protection.
(d) A husband.

11. What does Janie find difficult about tending the store?
(a) The customer service.
(b) The crowds.
(c) Handling the meat.
(d) The calculations.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old do the neighbors think Janie is when she returns home in Chapter 1?

3. What object in nature is symbolic of Janie's sexual awakening?

4. What item of Joe's are the residents of Eatonville envious of?

5. What does Joe want the town to have that the men of Eatonville say the white men won't give him?

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