Their Eyes Were Watching God Quizzes

Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 1

1 What, according to Hurston, is the difference between women and men?
Women seek the horizon; men do not.

Men are farmers and women are mules.

Men use their voices and women do not.

Women don't wait for their dreams to come true. The possession of the dream is enough.
2 When Janie returns to Eatonville, she is wearing
The same shoes that she left in

Her blue satin wedding dress

The headrags that Joe made her wear

Overalls
3 Who is Janie's life long best friend?
Pheoby

Tea Cake

Nanny

Nunkie
4 Janie wants Pheoby to relate her story to the townspeople on her behalf. We know this because she says
"The oldest of human longings is self revelation."

"Two things everybody got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves."

"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."

"Mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."
5 When Janie is a girl, she loves ...
spending long hours talking to Nanny

to spend the afternoons laying under a pear tree, staring into the branches

reading books; her friends call her "Alphabet."

All of the above
6 According to Nanny, when does Janie become a woman?
After she is raped by her school teacher

After she is mesmerized by the golden beauty of bees pollinating the pear blossoms

After her first period

After she kisses Johnny Taylor
7 Why was Janie's mother named Leafy?
Nanny hid her in the leafy moss when she ran away from the plantation

Nanny had sex with the plantation master when she was a slave in the leafy forests

Janie's mother had green leafy eyes

All of the above
8 Why does Janie marry Logan?
Nanny forces her to.

Janie wants to marry someone who has land and a stable livelihood.

Logan is unbearably handsome.

Janie falls in love with him after a session under the pear tree.
9 What is a symbol of new opportunities in the novel?
The gate

The pear tree

The porch

The horizon
10 What is a symbol of Janie's freedom in the novel?
Her hair

The Oak tree

The horizon

The pulpit
11 Which of the following sentences is an example of Hurston's usage of opposition and serves as commentary on the vicissitudes of life?
His house was a "stump in the middle of the woods that no one had ever seen."

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

"Ah want things sweet with my marriage like when you sit under a pear tree and think."

"You don't take nothing to count but sow-belly and cornbread."
12 When Janie leaves Logan, ________ is like a new dress.
her freedom

her white apron

her long free hair

the fresh air
13 Where do Joe and Janie get married?
The Everglads

Eatonville

West Florida

Green Cove Springs
14 Who is the first mayor of Eatonville?
Captain Eaton

Coker

Joe Starks

Tea Cake
15 Which of these does Joe provide for Eatonville?
A post office

A street lamp

A store

All of the above
16 Who steals a wagon of sugar cane from Joe?
Henry Pitts

Sam Watson

Oscar Scott

Matt Bonner
17 Which of these is ironic?
Joe Starks stands on top of the mule to proclaim how great it was

Joe forces Janie to sell something to Mrs. Bogle

Mrs. Robbins cries out that no one feeds her

None of the above
18 Matt Bonner's yellow mule is most closely a symbol of which character?
Pheoby Watson

Joe Starks

Janie Starks

Zora Neale Hurston
19 Janie's speaking out against Joe is like "the thing that Saul's daughter had done to David." This is an example of ...
an allusion

a symbol

a metaphor

an allegory
20 What does Joe die of?
brain aneurism

stomach cancer

kidney failure

heart disease
21 Which of these is a symbol of Janie's regained freedom?
Janie burns her headrags

Joe's impressive funeral

The death of Matt Bonner's yellow mule

All of the above
22 Before the funeral, Janie starches and irons her
her face

chiffon veil

her black gown

all of the above
23 Who says, "You just can't beat a woman! They just won't stand for it."
Joe Starks

Tea Cake

Janie

Hezekiah
24 At their second meeting, Tea Cake arrives
with trout for Janie

playing a harmonica

in a borrowed car

playing an invisible guitar
25 After which event is Janie convinced that Tea Cake is just a cold-heart womanizer?
When he wins at chess and says, "You just can't beat a woman! They just won't stand for it."

After he says "I'm the apostle to the Gentiles; I tell them and then I show them."

When he asks her if she wants to go fishing by moonlight

When he "taught [her the] maiden language all over."

What does Hurston have to say about race when she discusses burying those who died?

In context, Hurston is exposing racism when discussing burials because of the way that white officials disrepect black bodies by disposing of them in mass graves, rather then showing them respect by giving them a proper burial.

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chapter 6

Nature, in the form of buzzards, is able to articulate Janie's rage, and speak for the mule. The chief buzzard is seems like a religious figure; Hurston refers to him as the Parson. When the Parson asks what killed the mule, the other buzzard's...

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What is the difference between men and women, according to the text,

I would say the closest is:

Men are often secretly scared and self-doubting, whereas women are bold and brave

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