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Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 1

  • 1. What, according to Hurston, is the difference between women and men?
    •     Men are farmers and women are mules.
    •     Women don't wait for their dreams to come true. The possession of the dream is enough.
    •     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
    •     Overalls
    •     The same shoes that she left in

  • 3. Who is Janie's life long best friend?
    •     Phoeby
    •     Nunkie
    •     Tea Cake
    •     Nanny

  • 4. Janie wants Phoeby to relate her story to the townspeople on her behalf. We know this because she says
    •     "An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."
    •     "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."
    •     "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 kisses Johnny Taylor
    •     After she is raped by her school teacher
    •     After her first period
    •     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
    •     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?
    •     Janie wants to marry someone who has land and a stable livelihood.
    •     Janie falls in love with him after a session under the pear tree.
    •     Nanny forces her to.
    •     Logan is unbearably handsome.

  • 9. What is a symbol of new opportunities in the novel?
    •     The gate
    •     The horizon
    •     The porch
    •     The pear tree

  • 10. What is a symbol of Janie's freedom in the novel?
    •     The pulpit
    •     The Oak tree
    •     Her hair
    •     The horizon

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