Their Eyes Were Watching God Quizzes

Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 1

By Olivia Verma · Edited by Rachel Nolan · Last reviewed June 10, 2006

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 headrags that Joe made her wear

The same shoes that she left in

Overalls

Her blue satin wedding dress
3 Who is Janie's life long best friend?

Pheoby

Tea Cake

Nunkie

Nanny
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."

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

"The oldest of human longings is self revelation."

"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."
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 mesmerized by the golden beauty of bees pollinating the pear blossoms

After she is raped by her school teacher

After she kisses Johnny Taylor

After her first period
7 Why was Janie's mother named Leafy?

Janie's mother had green leafy eyes

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

Nanny hid her in the leafy moss when she ran away from the plantation

All of the above
8 Why does Janie marry Logan?

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

Logan is unbearably handsome.

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

Nanny forces her to.
9 What is a symbol of new opportunities in the novel?

The pear tree

The gate

The horizon

The porch
10 What is a symbol of Janie's freedom in the novel?

The Oak tree

The horizon

The pulpit

Her hair
11 Which of the following sentences is an example of Hurston's usage of opposition and serves as commentary on the vicissitudes of life?

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

His house was a "stump in the middle of the woods that no one had ever seen."

"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 white apron

her freedom

the fresh air

her long free hair
13 Where do Joe and Janie get married?

The Everglads

West Florida

Green Cove Springs

Eatonville
14 Who is the first mayor of Eatonville?

Joe Starks

Coker

Captain Eaton

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

A street lamp

A post office

A store

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

Oscar Scott

Henry Pitts

Sam Watson

Matt Bonner
17 Which of these is ironic?

Mrs. Robbins cries out that no one feeds her

Joe forces Janie to sell something to Mrs. Bogle

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

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

Janie Starks

Pheoby Watson

Joe 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 ...

a symbol

an allusion

an allegory

a metaphor
20 What does Joe die of?

stomach cancer

kidney failure

brain aneurism

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 black gown

her face

chiffon veil

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

Tea Cake

Joe Starks

Janie

Hezekiah
24 At their second meeting, Tea Cake arrives

with trout for Janie

in a borrowed car

playing a harmonica

playing an invisible guitar
25 After which event is Janie convinced that Tea Cake is just a cold-heart womanizer?

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

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

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

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

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