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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Janie leave Eatonville wearing?
(a) A funeral veil.
(b) Overalls.
(c) A blue dress.
(d) A wedding dress.

3. How does Tea Cake tell Janie to treat Mrs. Turner?
(a) He tells Janie to make friends with her.
(b) He tells Janie to steal Mrs. Turner's money.
(c) He tells Janie to give Mrs. Turner the cold shoulder.
(d) He tells Janie to feel sorry for Mrs. Turner.

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

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

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

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

8. Where do all the workers from the muck go for fun?
(a) Tea Cake and Janie's house.
(b) The general store.
(c) The swamp.
(d) The local bar.

9. What happens to the money Janie has hidden in her dress?
(a) Tea Cake hides the money from Janie.
(b) Tea Cake buys Janie a dress with it.
(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.

10. What does Nunkie do to get Tea Cake's attention?
(a) Nunkie tells Tea Cake that Janie is cheating on him.
(b) Nunkie dresses provocatively.
(c) Nunkie pretends to be sick for Tea Cake's sympathy
(d) Nunkie teases and hits Tea Cake.

11. How does Tea Cake die?
(a) He drinks poison.
(b) He shoots himself.
(c) Janie shoots him in self-defense.
(d) He is stabbed in a bar fight.

12. What emotion overtakes Janie in Chapter 15?
(a) Love.
(b) Anger.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Joy.

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

14. What does Tea Cake do when he returns to the store that melts Janie's decided coldness toward him?
(a) He buys all the sodas she has in the store.
(b) He brings her flowers.
(c) He asks her to marry him.
(d) He plays an imaginary guitar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tea Cake's job?

2. What does Tea Cake ask Janie to do in Chapter 14?

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

4. What does Mrs. Turner take pride in?

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

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