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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 dessert do Tea Cake and Janie enjoy on the porch?
(a) Oranges and lemonade.
(b) Ice cream and coffee.
(c) Milk and cookies.
(d) Pound cake and lemonade.

2. Who does Mrs. Turner want Janie to marry?
(a) A white man.
(b) Tea Cake.
(c) Her brother.
(d) The mayor.

3. 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.

4. How do Tea Cake's friends react to his death?
(a) They do not know he is dead.
(b) They are angry at Janie and want her prosecuted.
(c) They try to help Janie escape.
(d) They are glad he is gone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Janie know the hurricane is coming?

2. How do the townspeople feel about Janie's relationship with Tea Cake?

3. How long do the people on the muck stay mad at Janie?

4. What emotion overtakes Janie in Chapter 15?

5. Tea Cake tells Janie she is enough to make a man forget to _________. (Fill in the blank)

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Annie Tyler?

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Janie jealous of Nunkie?

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

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

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

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

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