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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion is personified in Chapter 9 as something that Janie asks questions of at night?
(a) Love.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Lonesomeness.
(d) Joy.

2. What does Janie do in Eatonville?
(a) She sells cakes and pies from her home.
(b) She quilts with the other women.
(c) She is a nanny for a white family.
(d) She manages the store.

3. How does Jody deal with his aging?
(a) He runs around with young girls.
(b) He gets plastic surgery.
(c) He berates Janie for her aging to make himself feel better.
(d) He hides in the back of the store so people won't see him.

4. What does Joe build in Chapter 5?
(a) A house.
(b) A barn.
(c) A store.
(d) A saw mill.

5. What does Joe want the town to have that the men of Eatonville say the white men won't give him?
(a) A post office.
(b) A mayor.
(c) A church.
(d) A paved road.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hezekiah behave in the store?

2. How old is Janie in Chapter 7?

3. What symbolic object does Janie keep returning to in the days before her wedding?

4. What is an alternate name for Eatonville?

5. Besides Janie's wedding, what other major event occurs in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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