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| In chapter 1, what was Janie coming back from doing? | show 🗑
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| Why do all the people gather to see her? | show 🗑
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| show | She used to be classy
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| show | The men notice her long flowing her and her young looking body, and the women notice how it looks as if she doesn't care much about her appearance anymore
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| show | She is one of Janie's friends and she brings her food
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| show | Washing her feet
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| show | All the secrets are told on judgment day
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| show | Because he wants to know who stole his corn cob pipe
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| Does Janie intend to tell the residents of Eatonville what has happened to her? | show 🗑
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| show | She doesn't know her parents and she isn't sure where to start.
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| show | She had a lot of nicknames
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| show | To avoid doing chores and to daydream
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| show | Johnny Taylor
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| show | She is worried that Janie will end up like herself, and she doesn't want her to become a "mule"
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| show | A rich middle aged farmer. Nanny wants her to marry him because he has money and would treat her well
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| show | She had her daughter when she was a slave, and she ran away having to hide in the woods with her baby.
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| show | Her slave owner threatened to whip her and take away the child.
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| show | The school teacher
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| show | She has had a hard life, and she is very fragile
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| What does Janie ask herself as her marriage approaches? | show 🗑
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| Who arranges Janie's marriage ceremony? | show 🗑
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| When Janie asks Nanny for "information" why does Nanny laugh? | show 🗑
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| What does Janie want Nanny to do? | show 🗑
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| show | Everybody is a fool, but it is not a terrible thing
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| show | She doesn't like that he doesn't wash his feet and that he is always dirty
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| show | She dies
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| What is "a bloom time, a green time, and an orange time"? | show 🗑
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| What is the significance of the recurring symbols of the pear tree and the gate? | show 🗑
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| show | He calls her spoiled and wants her to start working
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| show | She says she wont cook for him anymore
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| show | So Janie can use it to start working
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| Describe Joe Starks as Janie first sees him | show 🗑
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| show | So he can see her long hair
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| As Joe walked down the road, "he aced like Mr. Washburn or somebody like that to Janie." What is implied by this sentence? | show 🗑
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| show | all he cares about is himself and his doesn't take others into consideration. He is selfish
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| show | He buys her a mule so she can work and he refuses to chop her wood
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| show | The best things that the butcher had, like apples
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| show | 50 acres and very small. The houses were shacks and there was no stores around. They did not have a mayor.
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| When Joe leaves town for the first time, who stays behind and why? | show 🗑
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| How does Lee Coker respond to Amos Hicks and his criticism of Janie? | show 🗑
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| show | He is not in favor of the idea
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| Why is Tony Taylor upset at Lige Moss during the party celebrating the store's grand opening? | show 🗑
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| How does Joe decide to celebrate the arrival of the street lamp? | show 🗑
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| show | Joe buys it so he can treat it right
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| show | Yells at the people arguing about the mule and fights with Janie
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| show | $5
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| What is Sam and Lige's argument about? | show 🗑
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| What position does each man hold in the argument, and what proof do they offer? | show 🗑
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| show | The nature of humans
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| How does Joe ruin that argument for Janie? | show 🗑
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| According to Joe, what is the difference between him and Janie? | show 🗑
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| show | So he can ignore what is coming
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| show | A mule
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| Explain the following sentence: "she sat and watched the shadow of herself going about tending store and prostrating itself before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes." | show 🗑
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| Why does Joe tell Janie to stop playing croquet? | show 🗑
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| show | His skin is dropping and his appearance is older
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| show | She cuts the tobacco wrong
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| show | Because it was socially unacceptable and just a reflection of himself
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| According to Janie, what has Joe "mixed up"? | show 🗑
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| show | on the couch
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| show | She has to do what she has to do
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| show | Old lady Davis
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| What does Pheoby advise Janie to do about the rumor hat she is poisoning her husband? | show 🗑
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| What does Pheoby know about the medicine man who stared the rumor about Janie? | show 🗑
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| What medical problem does Joe have? | show 🗑
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| Describe the character of death. | show 🗑
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| show | "Safe in the Arms of Jesus"
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| show | She is finally free for the first time in her life
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| show | work in the shop
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| show | Because Joe is not treating her right
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| Hoe long has Joe been dead when Ike Green proposes to help Janie? | show 🗑
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| show | She says she has to go
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| How long does Janie wear black? | show 🗑
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| How does Hezekiah become more like Joe? | show 🗑
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| How do the townspeople treat Janie after she starts to wear white? | show 🗑
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| show | Pheoby's brother
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| show | At night and he buys tobacco
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| show | She hated it but honored to play
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| show | Because he is focusing on her
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| How does Janie joke about his nickname? | show 🗑
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| What does Janie call Tea Cake, how does he react? | show 🗑
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| show | Turns around and goes confused
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| Why does Tea Cake tell Janie to have another Coca-Cola? | show 🗑
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| show | At the creek at night
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| How is Tea Cake prepared to play with Janie's hair? | show 🗑
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| What does Janie wish about herself? | show 🗑
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| show | To prove his love for her
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| Why does Tea Cake being a car to Janie's store? | show 🗑
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| How long has Tea Cake been saving money and what is he saving for? | show 🗑
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| show | a year
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| What color does Janie usually wear? | show 🗑
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| What does the Pastor say about Tea Cake? | show 🗑
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| Why doesn't Janie wear the mourning cloths anymore? | show 🗑
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| show | Because Joe is dead
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| show | She means that she lived the life that her Grandma wanted her to live, but now she is going to start living life the was she wants to
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| show | She is wearing a blue dress because she is leaving to go marry Tea Cake
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| Who, if anybody, sees Janie leave Eatonville and why is she leaving? | show 🗑
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| Who is Mrs. Samuels and why does she ask Janie to drink coffee with her? | show 🗑
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| Who is Annie Taylor and how did she get "her money"? | show 🗑
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| How much money does Janie still have in Eatonville? | show 🗑
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| show | He doesn't let her in
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| show | Because he always comes back
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| show | He let them alone
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| What does God know about Tea Cake? | show 🗑
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| show | The time when farmers plant and harvest bean. It opens on the last of September
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| Why is Tea Cake waiting for his new boss? | show 🗑
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| Why doesn't Tea Cake gamble while they are waiting for the beans to grow? | show 🗑
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| show | He would make her shoot as small things during their free time
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| What is Tea Cakes favorite dish? | show 🗑
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| show | It was something for her to do that she enjoyed
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| show | The neighbors would come
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| Why do people come to Tea Cake and Janie's house every night? | show 🗑
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| show | Almost every single time
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| How is Janie's life different now that she is with Tea Cake? | show 🗑
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| show | She works on the farm with Tea Cake and flirts with him
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| show | She would wrestle with him
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| How does Janie react to Nunkie's games? | show 🗑
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| How does Janie find out where Tea Cake is? | show 🗑
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| Why does Janie go home instead of to work? | show 🗑
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| What does Tea Cake do to keep Janie from running away? | show 🗑
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| How does Tea Cake "bruise" Janie's ears? | show 🗑
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| Does Janie believe that Tea Cake was ever interested in Nunkie? | show 🗑
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| show | It makes her feel better
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| show | As pathetic
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| Where do Tea Cake and Janie go now that the season is over and most of the people are leaving? | show 🗑
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| Describe Mrs. Turner | show 🗑
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| How does Tea Cake joke about Mrs. Turner's appearance? | show 🗑
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| show | Because a girl like her would only marry a man like that
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| show | They should be separated from people like her and the whites.
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| show | They are too poor for the whites
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| Why is Mrs. Turner so proud of her brother? | show 🗑
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| What does Tea Cake intend to do about Mrs. Turners insults? | show 🗑
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| How does is plan work out? | show 🗑
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| How many times does Tea Cake slap Janie? | show 🗑
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| Who is Sop-de-Bottom and why doesn't he hit his wife any more? | show 🗑
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| show | This is a regular occurrence
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| Why is the whole gang at Mrs. Turner's cafe? | show 🗑
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| Identify Sterrett and Coodernay. What do they order at the cafe? | show 🗑
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| show | Fry him fish
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| Why does Mrs. Turner try to refuse Tea Cakes help? | show 🗑
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| show | The place is a mess
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| show | $7 and $8
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| Who begins to sing and dance to Tea Cake's guitar music? | show 🗑
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| show | Nothing
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| show | To get money
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| show | Because a hurricane is coming
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| How deep is the water when they leave the house? | show 🗑
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| Why does the cow panic what Janie grabs on? | show 🗑
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| show | Because he doesn't live their
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| show | Motor Boat is alive and only a few died
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| show | Food
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| What is Tea Cake suffering from? | show 🗑
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| show | He orders medicine for Tea Cake but he doesn't know if he will survive
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| show | Mr. Taylor
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| show | So he doesn't shoot her
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| show | Janie shoots him
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| Describe the death scene? | show 🗑
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| show | She has to court and is put on trial
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| What is the outcome of the court case? | show 🗑
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| show | Many people come and it is very elaborate. Janie moves back to her home town
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| What do the Everglades represent to Janie now that Tea Cake is gone? | show 🗑
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| What does Janie keep for herself from the Everglades? | show 🗑
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| show | A horizon
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| show | Plant seeds in memory of Tea Cake
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| show | Find love and live their dreams
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