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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 call the land that he works on?
(a) The glades.
(b) The patch.
(c) The muck.
(d) The office.

2. What is Tea Cake's job?
(a) Picking beans.
(b) Cleaning floors.
(c) Baling hay.
(d) Herding cattle.

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

4. How is Nunkie's appearance described?
(a) Nunkie is chunky.
(b) Nunkie looks like a movie star.
(c) Nunkie is white.
(d) Nunkie is tall and thin.

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

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

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

8. What does Hezekiah think of Tea Cake?
(a) He thinks Janie is too good for Tea Cake.
(b) He thinks Tea Cake is a good man.
(c) He is jealous of Tea Cake.
(d) He thinks Tea Cake is a criminal.

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

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

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

12. 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 she is late opening the store every day.
(d) After he starts working at the store.

13. Who sends Pheoby to have a talk with Janie about Tea Cake?
(a) Dr. Lawrence.
(b) Nanny.
(c) Sam Watson.
(d) Matt Bonner.

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

15. What does Tea Cake say that Nunkie did to draw him away from the crowd in the fields?
(a) She threw his hat across the field.
(b) She made the job foreman move him.
(c) She told him he was supposed to work in another area.
(d) She took his working tickets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Janie let Tea Cake do that none of the other men have been able to do?

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

3. What does Janie take with her when she leaves?

4. What does Janie hide behind the stove?

5. What do the men who work with Tea Cake think of Mr. Turner?

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