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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Tea Cake die?

3. What does Mrs. Turner take pride in?

4. Who does Janie think of as a warning about what Tea Cake might do to her?

5. How old is Tea Cake?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Annie Tyler?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how the tone of the novel changes as Janie experiences highs and lows in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the foreshadowing in the novel. What events or passages indicate that something important will happen later in the novel? What themes are presented briefly only to be fully expanded on by future events?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the frame story (a story within a story) is used in the novel. How is it an effective storytelling tool? How does it resemble folklore or folktales? In what way can the reader better understand the story through Janie's eyes because the story is told in this way?

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