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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. Who buys the Olinka land, threatening to take everything away from the villagers?
(a) A rubber company.
(b) A university.
(c) The French government.
(d) An American farming company.

2. What has changed about Mr. in the time that Celie has been in Memphis?
(a) His personality has mellowed and his now pleasant.
(b) He has started drinking and is now unbearable to be around.
(c) He has remarried and moved to Texas.
(d) He has found God and is now a preacher.

3. Where did Mr. hide Nettie’s letters?
(a) In a box under his dirty clothes.
(b) In his trunk.
(c) Under his bed.
(d) In a tree stump.

4. Who does Samuel think is Olivia and Adam’s real mother?
(a) Shug.
(b) Nettie.
(c) Sofia.
(d) Celie.

5. Where does Nettie live?
(a) Australia.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Canada.
(d) Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nettie marry?

2. What is the first thing that Nettie’s letters reveal to Celie?

3. Who discovers that Mr. has been hiding Nettie’s letters?

4. What is the name of Corrine’s husband?

5. Why does Harpo finally agree to let Squeak sing at his juke joint?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shug picture God?

2. How did Nettie come to live in Africa?

3. How does Celie react to the news that Pa has died?

4. How does Billy get hurt on the day that Celie visits Sofia at the mayor’s house?

5. How do Tashi’s parents feel about her befriending Olivia?

6. Where are Celie’s parents buried, and what marks their headstones?

7. Who is Germaine, and how does Celie feel about him?

8. How does Pa react when Celie tells him that she knows the truth about her birth parents?

9. Who did Pa marry after Celie and Nettie moved out, and what does this suggest about his personality?

10. How is the outside world changing Olinka?

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