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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Tea Cake as he and Janie are trying to get out of the water?
(a) Janie pushes him under water.
(b) He gets swept away by the wind.
(c) A dog bites him on the cheek.
(d) A cow kicks him in the face.

2. Where do the workers go to escape the storm?
(a) Palm Beach.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Louisiana.

3. When do the townspeople take notice of Janie's spending so much time with Tea Cake?
(a) After the picnic.
(b) After she is late opening the store every day.
(c) After he starts working at the store.
(d) After he is seen leaving her house one morning.

4. What dessert do Tea Cake and Janie enjoy on the porch?
(a) Pound cake and lemonade.
(b) Oranges and lemonade.
(c) Milk and cookies.
(d) Ice cream and coffee.

5. Who does Janie think of as a warning about what Tea Cake might do to her?
(a) Annie Tyler.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Pheoby Watson.
(d) Joe Starks.

6. How long do the people on the muck stay mad at Janie?
(a) A week.
(b) Two days.
(c) Six years.
(d) A month.

7. After finishing her story, Janie tells Pheoby "Ah done been tuh de _________." (Fill in the blank)
(a) Whole world and back.
(b) Depths of hell.
(c) Best place.
(d) Horizon.

8. How do the townspeople feel about Janie's relationship with Tea Cake?
(a) They think Janie is taking advantage of Tea Cake.
(b) They are mad about it.
(c) They think Tea Cake should be mayor.
(d) They want them to get married.

9. What does Tea Cake ask Janie to do in Chapter 14?
(a) Have a baby with him.
(b) Buy him a car.
(c) Work in the fields with him.
(d) Return to Eatonville alone.

10. What illness does Tea Cake contract?
(a) Rabies.
(b) HIV.
(c) Consumption.
(d) The flu.

11. What does Tea Cake teach Janie how to do in the Everglades?
(a) How to cook.
(b) How to play guitar.
(c) How to sew.
(d) How to shoot.

12. Who stays, then flees, with Tea Cake and Janie?
(a) Sop-de-Bottom.
(b) Motor Boat.
(c) Stew Beef.
(d) Pheoby.

13. What happens to the money Janie has hidden in her dress?
(a) Tea Cake takes the money and goes out on the town to see what it is like to be rich.
(b) Janie buries the money under her house.
(c) Tea Cake hides the money from Janie.
(d) Tea Cake buys Janie a dress with it.

14. What does Janie "pull in and drape over her shoulder" at the end of the novel?
(a) Tea Cake's sweater.
(b) A warm blanket.
(c) The horizon.
(d) Her whole life.

15. How does Janie react to finding Tea Cake with Nunkie?
(a) She rages violently at Tea Cake.
(b) She ignores the incident.
(c) She leaves Tea Cake.
(d) She kills Nunkie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tea Cake do when he returns to the store that melts Janie's decided coldness toward him?

2. What color does Janie start wearing in Chapter 12?

3. What does Janie find under Tea Cake's pillow?

4. What does Janie hide behind the stove?

5. What does Tea Cake want to protect Janie from?

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