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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. When is payday on the muck?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Monday.

2. What happens to the money Janie has hidden in her dress?
(a) Tea Cake hides the money from Janie.
(b) Tea Cake takes the money and goes out on the town to see what it is like to be rich.
(c) Janie buries the money under her house.
(d) Tea Cake buys Janie a dress with it.

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

4. How does Tea Cake tell Janie to treat Mrs. Turner?
(a) He tells Janie to feel sorry for Mrs. Turner.
(b) He tells Janie to steal Mrs. Turner's money.
(c) He tells Janie to make friends with her.
(d) He tells Janie to give Mrs. Turner the cold shoulder.

5. Tea Cake tells Janie she is enough to make a man forget to _________. (Fill in the blank)
(a) Get old and die.
(b) Go to work.
(c) Breathe.
(d) Wake up in the morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hezekiah think of Tea Cake?

2. What does Janie "pull in and drape over her shoulder" at the end of the novel?

3. Why does Mrs. Turner like Janie?

4. Why don't the police make many arrests when the workers get drunk in town?

5. Who stays, then flees, with Tea Cake and Janie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Janie say about the horizon at the end of her story?

7. Why is Janie jealous of Nunkie?

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

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

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

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