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by Zora Neale Hurston

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?

  • Pheoby
  • Nunkie
  • Tea Cake
  • Nanny

4. Janie wants Pheoby 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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