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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 the strong wind bring, which is strange to the town?
(a) Drier heat
(b) Heavy humidity
(c) Snow
(d) Hurricane

2. Who only sees the happiness in the town?
(a) The farmer
(b) Eva
(c) Sula
(d) Outsiders

3. The beginning of the novel is unique because it's actually _______.
(a) A dream
(b) A joke
(c) A hallucination
(d) The ending

4. Who witnessed the horrific burning?
(a) Sula
(b) Shadrack
(c) The Deweys
(d) Nel

5. This neighborhood of the town started off as a "________."
(a) Joke
(b) Promise
(c) Wreck
(d) Whisper

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem with the answer to #103?

2. What does the strong wind usually bring normally to the area?

3. What does Sula do that convinces the boys of her threat?

4. What does Hannah discover about the answer to #69?

5. Helene tells her daughter she does not speak ________ and never will.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening to Sula when Nel finally visits her for the first time in three years?

2. What is Nel taken aback by when she visits Eva?

3. Why is Shadrack released from the hospital?

4. Who are the two characters who have become fast friends and why is this so strange?

5. Why does Helene's grandmother want her away from Sundown House?

6. What does Sula threaten when she is talking with Eva?

7. What does Nel realize she feels about Chicken Little's death?

8. What accompanies Sula when she returns to Medallion?

9. How would the neighborhood be described as in the past?

10. What amazes Nel as she considered the way things have changed?

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