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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 is Tea Cake's job?
(a) Herding cattle.
(b) Baling hay.
(c) Cleaning floors.
(d) Picking beans.

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

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

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 are glad he is gone.
(d) They try to help Janie escape.

5. What does Tea Cake teach Janie how to do in the Everglades?
(a) How to play guitar.
(b) How to sew.
(c) How to shoot.
(d) How to cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Turner take pride in?

2. How is Nunkie's appearance described?

3. What does Tea Cake say that Nunkie did to draw him away from the crowd in the fields?

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

5. What does Janie find under Tea Cake's pillow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mrs. Turner view blacks?

3. How does Tea Cake die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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