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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Nanny call the "very prong all us black women gits hung on"?
(a) Family.
(b) Safety.
(c) Money.
(d) Love.

3. Who helps Janie in the store after Joe is dead?
(a) Nanny.
(b) Tea Cake.
(c) Hezekiah.
(d) Pheoby.

4. What does Janie compare Jody's body to?
(a) "A nekkid grandpa."
(b) "A horse rump."
(c) Sadness.
(d) The "change uh life."

5. How old is Janie in Chapter 7?
(a) 29.
(b) 35.
(c) 55.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is elected mayor of Eatonville?

2. What does Joe's death mean to Janie?

3. How do the townspeople react to the scene between Jody and Janie in the store?

4. What does Hurston say that Janie's grandmother pinched and tied around Janie's neck "tight enough to choke her"?

5. What surprises Jody and Janie about Eatonville?

(see the answer key)

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