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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tea Cake do when Janie cannot swim anymore?
(a) He leaves her at a house.
(b) He pulls her with a rope.
(c) He carries her.
(d) He gets a boat.

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

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

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

6. What does Janie take with her when she leaves?
(a) Her blue dress.
(b) A pistol.
(c) A photo of Tea Cake.
(d) The seeds Tea Cake wanted to plant.

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

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

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

10. Why don't the police make many arrests when the workers get drunk in town?
(a) There isn't enough jail space.
(b) They can't find anyone to arrest.
(c) They are afraid of the blacks.
(d) They are too lazy.

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

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

13. What do Janie and Tea Cake do when the picking season ends?
(a) They stay in the Everglades.
(b) They return to Eatonville.
(c) They go on a long vacation to Mexico.
(d) They keep working the fields.

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

15. What does Janie find under Tea Cake's pillow?
(a) A loaded pistol.
(b) Another woman's picture.
(c) A love note.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dessert do Tea Cake and Janie enjoy on the porch?

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

3. Who stays, then flees, with Tea Cake and Janie?

4. How does Tea Cake tell Janie to treat Mrs. Turner?

5. What does Janie "pull in and drape over her shoulder" at the end of the novel?

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