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

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

3. What does Nunkie do to get Tea Cake's attention?
(a) Nunkie dresses provocatively.
(b) Nunkie teases and hits Tea Cake.
(c) Nunkie pretends to be sick for Tea Cake's sympathy
(d) Nunkie tells Tea Cake that Janie is cheating on him.

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

5. What does Janie hide behind the stove?
(a) A rifle.
(b) Her money.
(c) Tea Cake's pistol.
(d) A train ticket.

Short Answer Questions

1. After finishing her story, Janie tells Pheoby "Ah done been tuh de _________." (Fill in the blank)

2. What is Tea Cake's job?

3. Why does Tea Cake want to stay on the muck?

4. What does Tea Cake do when Janie cannot swim anymore?

5. What does Tea Cake do when he returns to the store that melts Janie's decided coldness toward him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Turner view blacks?

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

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

4. How does Tea Cake die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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