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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1939.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is playing chain gang by tying their laces together?
(a) Nel and Sula
(b) Nel and her sister
(c) Sula and some boys
(d) The Deweys

2. What does this grandmother want to prevent?
(a) Helene's mother's wild blood
(b) A bad marriage
(c) An abortion
(d) A lost life

3. Who shows up and is pressured into marrying Helene?
(a) Julian
(b) BoyBoy
(c) Wiley Wright
(d) Jude

4. Why is Helene nervous about traveling?
(a) She doesn't want to travel alone
(b) She is afraid of the water
(c) She doesn't like trains
(d) She has never left home

5. Who does Shadrack tip his hat to?
(a) Nel
(b) Hannah
(c) Eva
(d) Sula

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose was an honorable death, according to Eva?

2. Why would the person in #107 have watched?

3. What does Sula threaten the Deweys with?

4. What does the strong wind bring, which is strange to the town?

5. Who asks her mother if she really loved her children?

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