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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Tea Cake want to stay on the muck?
(a) He does not like moving around.
(b) He does not want to leave Janie.
(c) He does not want to lose a day of work.
(d) He is not afraid of hurricanes.

4. How does Pheoby feel after Janie is done talking in Chapter 20?
(a) She's not satisfied with herself anymore.
(b) She is mad at Janie.
(c) She is jealous.
(d) She wants to move away.

5. How much of the two hundred dollars is left when Tea Cake returns home?
(a) 100 dollars.
(b) All of it.
(c) Twelve dollars.
(d) Nothing.

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

7. 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) Janie buries the money under her house.
(d) Tea Cake takes the money and goes out on the town to see what it is like to be rich.

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

9. When is payday on the muck?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Monday.

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

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

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

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

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

15. How old is Tea Cake?
(a) 18.
(b) 38.
(c) 40.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. After finishing her story, Janie tells Pheoby "Ah done been tuh de _________." (Fill in the blank)

2. Who does Mrs. Turner want Janie to marry?

3. What does Nunkie do to get Tea Cake's attention?

4. What does Mr. Turner do when the restaurant is getting torn up?

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

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