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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 does Tea Cake ask Janie to do in Chapter 14?
(a) Return to Eatonville alone.
(b) Have a baby with him.
(c) Buy him a car.
(d) Work in the fields with him.

2. Where do the workers go to escape the storm?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Palm Beach.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Orlando.

3. Where do Janie and Tea Cake go in Chapter 14?
(a) Eatonville.
(b) Jacksonville.
(c) Orlando.
(d) The Everglades.

4. How is Nunkie's appearance described?
(a) Nunkie looks like a movie star.
(b) Nunkie is white.
(c) Nunkie is chunky.
(d) Nunkie is tall and thin.

5. Who stays, then flees, with Tea Cake and Janie?
(a) Stew Beef.
(b) Pheoby.
(c) Motor Boat.
(d) Sop-de-Bottom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sends Pheoby to have a talk with Janie about Tea Cake?

2. What does Mr. Turner do when the restaurant is getting torn up?

3. What does Janie leave Eatonville wearing?

4. How old is Tea Cake?

5. What does Tea Cake call the land that he works on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mrs. Turner view blacks?

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

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

5. Who is Annie Tyler?

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

7. Why is Janie jealous of Nunkie?

8. How does Tea Cake die?

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

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

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