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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Tea Cake intend to win Janie's money back?
(a) By selling everything he has.
(b) By working all month.
(c) By robbing a bank.
(d) By gambling.

3. What color does Janie start wearing in Chapter 12?
(a) White.
(b) Pink.
(c) Black .
(d) Blue.

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

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

6. Why does Janie leave the Everglades?
(a) She gets a job in Orlando.
(b) Everything reminds her of Tea Cake.
(c) She is run out of town by Tea Cake's friends.
(d) She meets a new man.

7. How do the other men feel about Tea Cake's beating Janie?
(a) They are jealous of Tea Cake.
(b) They feel sorry for Janie.
(c) They are angry at Tea Cake.
(d) They think Janie deserved it.

8. What does Janie wear to Tea Cake's funeral?
(a) A wedding dress.
(b) A black veil.
(c) A satin dress.
(d) Overalls.

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

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

11. Tea Cake tells Janie she is enough to make a man forget to _________. (Fill in the blank)
(a) Go to work.
(b) Get old and die.
(c) Wake up in the morning.
(d) Breathe.

12. What symbol returns in Chapter 11 as a feeling that Tea Cake awakens in Janie?
(a) The head rag.
(b) The spittoon.
(c) The pear blossom.
(d) The mule.

13. Why does Tea Cake beat Janie?
(a) Janie tries to leave him.
(b) He wants to show the Turners who is boss.
(c) Janie cheats on him.
(d) He is drunk.

14. How does Janie know the hurricane is coming?
(a) She sees the storm coming in the sky.
(b) The Seminoles tell her.
(c) Tea Cake tells her.
(d) She hears about it on the radio.

15. What does Tea Cake want to protect Janie from?
(a) The cruelty of the world.
(b) The lustful men in town.
(c) The dangerous bars in town.
(d) The commonness of the railroad workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Tea Cake as he and Janie are trying to get out of the water?

2. Why does Mrs. Turner like Janie?

3. What does Janie leave Eatonville wearing?

4. What does Mrs. Turner take pride in?

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

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