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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Janie realize she is not white?
(a) When she looks in the mirror.
(b) When she sees a picture of herself with the white children.
(c) When the kids at school tease her.
(d) When her grandmother tells her.

2. What do the men compare beating a woman to?
(a) Sinning against God.
(b) Cooking a hamburger.
(c) Teaching a lesson.
(d) Stepping on baby chickens.

3. What does Joe think the town must do to be successful?
(a) Start a city council.
(b) Build a bridge.
(c) Incorporate.
(d) Pay him for his advice.

4. Besides Janie's wedding, what other major event occurs in Chapter 3?
(a) Janie has a baby.
(b) Logan dies.
(c) Nanny dies.
(d) Janie divorces Logan.

5. What do Tea Cake and Janie drink at the store?
(a) Rum.
(b) Root beer.
(c) Coca Cola.
(d) Wine.

6. What does Janie have in her new home that none of the other blacks in town have?
(a) A bathtub.
(b) A wood-burning stove.
(c) An organ.
(d) A feather bed.

7. What is an alternate name for Eatonville?
(a) East Tampa.
(b) Oxford.
(c) West Maitland.
(d) The Everglades.

8. What event in Chapter 2 signals the end of Janie's childhood?
(a) Nanny telling her it's time to get married.
(b) Johnny Taylor kissing her.
(c) Janie leaving home.
(d) Janie graduating from high school.

9. What does Janie like about the store?
(a) That she gets to work with Joe.
(b) The people who visit her.
(c) The independence she feels by running the store.
(d) The conversations on the porch.

10. What symbolic object does Janie keep returning to in the days before her wedding?
(a) The rose bush.
(b) The school yard.
(c) The pear tree.
(d) The front gate.

11. What does Hurston compare Janie's funeral veil to?
(a) A party mask.
(b) A wall of stone and steel.
(c) A bridal veil.
(d) A burial shroud.

12. What does Janie's husband do for Janie that Nanny says won't last for long?
(a) Brushes her hair at night.
(b) Chops the wood and carries it inside.
(c) Sleeps on the couch.
(d) Cooks dinner.

13. What does Janie keep waiting for after her marriage?
(a) To have a baby.
(b) To move to another city.
(c) To get a new dress.
(d) To fall in love with her husband.

14. What does Janie have to do when Logan goes to Lake City for the day?
(a) Cut up potatoes.
(b) Pack him a lunch.
(c) Go to the grocery store.
(d) Plow the field.

15. What time of day is it when the novel begins?
(a) Lunch time.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Daybreak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe do to hurt Janie in Chapter 8?

2. What song is played at Joe's funeral?

3. What does Hurston compare Janie to in Chapter 7?

4. What does Joe make Janie do (out of jealousy)?

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

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