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?
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.

Men are farmers and women are mules.

Women seek the horizon; men do not.
2 When Janie returns to Eatonville, she is wearing
Overalls

The same shoes that she left in

Her blue satin wedding dress

The headrags that Joe made her wear
3 Who is Janie's life long best friend?
Nunkie

Pheoby

Nanny

Tea Cake
4 Janie wants Pheoby to relate her story to the townspeople on her behalf. We know this because she says
"Two things everybody got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves."

"The oldest of human longings is self revelation."

"Mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."

"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."
5 When Janie is a girl, she loves ...
reading books; her friends call her "Alphabet."

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

spending long hours talking to Nanny

All of the above
6 According to Nanny, when does Janie become a woman?
After she kisses Johnny Taylor

After her first period

After she is raped by her school teacher

After she is mesmerized by the golden beauty of bees pollinating the pear blossoms
7 Why was Janie's mother named Leafy?
Nanny hid her in the leafy moss when she ran away from the plantation

Janie's mother had green leafy eyes

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

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

Logan is unbearably handsome.

Janie falls in love with him after a session under the pear tree.

Janie wants to marry someone who has land and a stable livelihood.
9 What is a symbol of new opportunities in the novel?
The porch

The gate

The horizon

The pear tree
10 What is a symbol of Janie's freedom in the novel?
The Oak tree

Her hair

The pulpit

The horizon
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."

"You don't take nothing to count but sow-belly and cornbread."

"Ah want things sweet with my marriage like when you sit under a pear tree and think."
12 When Janie leaves Logan, ________ is like a new dress.
the fresh air

her freedom

her long free hair

her white apron
13 Where do Joe and Janie get married?
The Everglads

West Florida

Green Cove Springs

Eatonville
14 Who is the first mayor of Eatonville?
Coker

Tea Cake

Joe Starks

Captain Eaton
15 Which of these does Joe provide for Eatonville?
A store

A street lamp

A post office

All of the above
16 Who steals a wagon of sugar cane from Joe?
Oscar Scott

Sam Watson

Matt Bonner

Henry Pitts
17 Which of these is ironic?
Mrs. Robbins cries out that no one feeds her

Joe Starks stands on top of the mule to proclaim how great it was

Joe forces Janie to sell something to Mrs. Bogle

None of the above
18 Matt Bonner's yellow mule is most closely a symbol of which character?
Zora Neale Hurston

Joe Starks

Janie Starks

Pheoby Watson
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 allegory

a symbol

an allusion

a metaphor
20 What does Joe die of?
heart disease

stomach cancer

brain aneurism

kidney failure
21 Which of these is a symbol of Janie's regained freedom?
Joe's impressive funeral

Janie burns her headrags

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."
Janie

Hezekiah

Joe Starks

Tea Cake
24 At their second meeting, Tea Cake arrives
playing an invisible guitar

in a borrowed car

playing a harmonica

with trout for Janie
25 After which event is Janie convinced that Tea Cake is just a cold-heart womanizer?
When he "taught [her the] maiden language all over."

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

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

When he wins at chess and says, "You just can't beat a woman! They just won't stand for it."

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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Answered by Aslan on 3/27/2020 2:27 AM