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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Janie let Tea Cake do that none of the other men have been able to do?
(a) Buy her a soda.
(b) Come up on her porch.
(c) Borrow some money.
(d) Take her to dinner.

2. Who stays, then flees, with Tea Cake and Janie?
(a) Stew Beef.
(b) Pheoby.
(c) Sop-de-Bottom.
(d) Motor Boat.

3. How do the other men feel about Tea Cake's beating Janie?
(a) They are angry at Tea Cake.
(b) They are jealous of Tea Cake.
(c) They feel sorry for Janie.
(d) They think Janie deserved it.

4. Who does Janie think of as a warning about what Tea Cake might do to her?
(a) Pheoby Watson.
(b) Joe Starks.
(c) Annie Tyler.
(d) Her grandmother.

5. What does Tea Cake say that Nunkie did to draw him away from the crowd in the fields?
(a) She threw his hat across the field.
(b) She made the job foreman move him.
(c) She took his working tickets.
(d) She told him he was supposed to work in another area.

6. What does Janie leave Eatonville wearing?
(a) A wedding dress.
(b) A blue dress.
(c) Overalls.
(d) A funeral veil.

7. When does Janie want to marry Tea Cake?
(a) As soon as Tea Cake gets a job.
(b) At dawn.
(c) As soon as she can sell the store.
(d) Once she has a baby.

8. Why does Tea Cake want to stay on the muck?
(a) He does not like moving around.
(b) He does not want to leave Janie.
(c) He is not afraid of hurricanes.
(d) He does not want to lose a day of work.

9. Who does Mrs. Turner want Janie to marry?
(a) Her brother.
(b) A white man.
(c) The mayor.
(d) Tea Cake.

10. How is Nunkie's appearance described?
(a) Nunkie is white.
(b) Nunkie is tall and thin.
(c) Nunkie looks like a movie star.
(d) Nunkie is chunky.

11. How long do the people on the muck stay mad at Janie?
(a) Two days.
(b) A month.
(c) A week.
(d) Six years.

12. Why don't the police make many arrests when the workers get drunk in town?
(a) They are too lazy.
(b) They are afraid of the blacks.
(c) They can't find anyone to arrest.
(d) There isn't enough jail space.

13. How does Tea Cake die?
(a) He drinks poison.
(b) Janie shoots him in self-defense.
(c) He is stabbed in a bar fight.
(d) He shoots himself.

14. When do the townspeople take notice of Janie's spending so much time with Tea Cake?
(a) After he is seen leaving her house one morning.
(b) After he starts working at the store.
(c) After the picnic.
(d) After she is late opening the store every day.

15. How does Pheoby feel after Janie is done talking in Chapter 20?
(a) She wants to move away.
(b) She is mad at Janie.
(c) She is jealous.
(d) She's not satisfied with herself anymore.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the townspeople feel about Janie's relationship with Tea Cake?

2. What does Hezekiah think of Tea Cake?

3. What happens to the money Janie has hidden in her dress?

4. Where do Janie and Tea Cake go in Chapter 14?

5. Who sends Pheoby to have a talk with Janie about Tea Cake?

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