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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Shadrack's panic after the incident in #27?
(a) He is ignored
(b) He is arrested
(c) He is put into a straightjacket
(d) He is beaten up

2. What does Sula do that convinces the boys of her threat?
(a) Fires the gun
(b) Hurts one of the boys
(c) Cuts off the tip of her own finger
(d) Swings the weapon at them

3. Who is Chicken Little elated to tell about his afternoon with Sula and Nel?
(a) His brother
(b) His sister
(c) No one
(d) His dad

4. What does Shadrack do on Tuesdays and Fridays?
(a) Threatens to commit suicide
(b) Sells fish
(c) Yells
(d) Sees his children

5. What does Hannah take to her mother?
(a) Some eggs
(b) A book
(c) A loaf of bread
(d) A necklace

6. Whose was an honorable death, according to Eva?
(a) Shadrack's
(b) BoyBoy's
(c) Plum's
(d) Chicken Little's

7. Who does Eva credit with saving her life?
(a) An orderly
(b) Hannah
(c) Sula
(d) Nel

8. Who asks her mother if she really loved her children?
(a) Nel
(b) Sula
(c) Pearl
(d) Hannah

9. When Shadrack has his first encounter with the enemy, he feels the bite of the ________ in his boot.
(a) Blood
(b) Nail
(c) Gun
(d) Snake

10. Who is light skinned, strong and consistent?
(a) Nel
(b) Hannah
(c) Eva
(d) Sula

11. Who lives in the neighborhood that is the answer to #1?
(a) The whites
(b) The Negroes
(c) The farmers
(d) The children

12. What is so special about the item in #97?
(a) It is about Eva
(b) No whites for luck
(c) It is fresh made
(d) It was crafted by Hannah

13. What is the name of the child who becomes constipated?
(a) Helene
(b) Plum
(c) Pearl
(d) Hannah

14. Why would the person in #107 have watched?
(a) She wanted to help
(b) She was interested
(c) They were odd like that
(d) He was responsible

15. Where do Helene and Nel travel to?
(a) New Orleans
(b) Mexico City
(c) Massachusetts
(d) Austin

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Nel and Helene get on by accident?

2. What does Hannah have a dream of?

3. Where does Helene move to?

4. What place is this grandmother trying to keep the woman away from?

5. Why is Helene nervous about traveling?

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