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

2. What does Janie leave Eatonville wearing?
(a) A blue dress.
(b) Overalls.
(c) A wedding dress.
(d) A funeral veil.

3. How long do the people on the muck stay mad at Janie?
(a) A month.
(b) Two days.
(c) Six years.
(d) A week.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Janie know the hurricane is coming?

2. What does Mrs. Turner take pride in?

3. Why does Mrs. Turner like Janie?

4. How does Pheoby feel after Janie is done talking in Chapter 20?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Janie jealous of Nunkie?

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

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

7. How does Tea Cake die?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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