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

2. 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 took his working tickets.
(c) She told him he was supposed to work in another area.
(d) She made the job foreman move him.

3. How does Janie react to finding Tea Cake with Nunkie?
(a) She kills Nunkie.
(b) She leaves Tea Cake.
(c) She rages violently at Tea Cake.
(d) She ignores the incident.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When do the townspeople take notice of Janie's spending so much time with Tea Cake?

3. What happens to the money Janie has hidden in her dress?

4. What illness does Tea Cake contract?

5. What do Janie and Tea Cake do when the picking season ends?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Janie tell Pheoby about marriage in Chapter 12?

2. Describe Janie's reaction when Tea Cake beats her.

3. Compare Tea Cake's funeral to Joe Starks'.

4. How does Tea Cake die?

5. What makes the townspeople so mad about Janie seeing Tea Cake?

6. What does Tea Cake do when Janie confronts him about Nunkie?

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

8. What do the workers in the Everglades do for fun?

9. How does Mrs. Turner react to Janie's snubbing of her?

10. Why do the men get angry at Mrs. Turner?

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