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 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.

Men use their voices and women do not.
2 When Janie returns to Eatonville, she is wearing
The headrags that Joe made her wear

Her blue satin wedding dress

The same shoes that she left in

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

Nanny

Pheoby

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."

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

"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."
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 kisses Johnny Taylor

After she is raped by her school teacher

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 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.

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

The pear tree

The horizon

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

The horizon

Her hair

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?
"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."

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."
12 When Janie leaves Logan, ________ is like a new dress.
her white apron

the fresh air

her long free hair

her freedom
13 Where do Joe and Janie get married?
West Florida

Green Cove Springs

The Everglads

Eatonville
14 Who is the first mayor of Eatonville?
Tea Cake

Coker

Captain Eaton

Joe Starks
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?
Matt Bonner

Oscar Scott

Henry Pitts

Sam Watson
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?
Joe Starks

Pheoby Watson

Zora Neale Hurston

Janie Starks
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?
brain aneurism

kidney failure

stomach cancer

heart disease
21 Which of these is a symbol of Janie's regained freedom?
The death of Matt Bonner's yellow mule

Joe's impressive funeral

Janie burns her headrags

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."
Hezekiah

Janie

Tea Cake

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

playing a harmonica

with trout for Janie

in a borrowed car
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."

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

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