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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe ask Janie to do?
(a) Mend his socks.
(b) Leave Logan and marry him.
(c) Cut her hair off.
(d) Kill her husband.

2. What do Janie's neighbors want to know about her?
(a) Where all her money is.
(b) Why she has come home.
(c) Where her boyfriend is.
(d) All of the above.

3. What do the other children tease Janie about?
(a) The way Janie's grandmother talks.
(b) The hound dogs chasing Janie's father.
(c) Janie's good grades in school.
(d) Janie's poor family.

4. What makes the Mistress suspect that Nanny's newborn baby is part white?
(a) The baby's fair skin.
(b) The baby is always hidden .
(c) The plantation Master sends the baby away.
(d) The baby's gray eyes and yellow hair.

5. The first line of the novel is "Ships at a distance have every man's _________ on board." (Fill in the blank)
(a) Wife.
(b) Wish.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Cargo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbolic object does Janie keep returning to in the days before her wedding?

2. What do the men compare beating a woman to?

3. What event in Chapter 2 signals the end of Janie's childhood?

4. Where is Tea Cake from?

5. What time of day is it when the novel begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Joe Starks' appearance.

2. What is Janie's first impression of Tea Cake in Chapter 10?

3. What does Janie do immediately after Joe dies?

4. Why is Joe so angry and embarrassed when Janie finally speaks up to him?

5. What does Janie say to Joe as he is dying?

6. What things about Janie make Joe jealous?

7. What are the circumstances surrounding Joe's death?

8. Describe your impression of the relationship between Pheoby and Janie.

9. Describe Janie's appearance.

10. How does Logan seem to feel about the possibility of Janie leaving him?

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