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

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

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

4. Where do Janie and Tea Cake go in Chapter 14?
(a) Orlando.
(b) The Everglades.
(c) Jacksonville.
(d) Eatonville.

5. When does Janie want to marry Tea Cake?
(a) At dawn.
(b) Once she has a baby.
(c) As soon as Tea Cake gets a job.
(d) As soon as she can sell the store.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the two hundred dollars is left when Tea Cake returns home?

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

3. Where do all the workers from the muck go for fun?

4. What does Hezekiah think of Tea Cake?

5. How does Tea Cake die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tea Cake die?

2. Who is Annie Tyler?

3. What are Janie's suspicions about Tea Cake?

4. Describe the events that take place during the hurricane.

5. Why does Tea Cake want Janie to work in the fields with him?

6. What things does Tea Cake do to show his love for Janie?

7. What happens to Tea Cake at the card game?

8. How does Pheoby react to Janie's story at the end of the novel?

9. Why is Janie jealous of Nunkie?

10. How is the hurricane a metaphor for Janie's life?

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