Vocabulary
To violate the sacred character of a place and/or language.
Desecrate
The three last names Janie gains from her husbands.
Killicks, Starks, Woods
The age in which Janie married for the first time.
16
This character is extremely prejudiced.
Mrs. Turner
The number of years Joe and Janie were married.
20 years
To be fearless or daring
Temerity
Joe has Janie do this out of jealousy.
Hide her hair
The jobs that Janie's grandfather and father had.
Grandfather = Slave Owner
Father = Teacher
The person that Janie and Tea Cake ventured through the hurricane with.
Motor Boat
The term used to refer to the Everglades.
The Muck
Having a difficult or contrary disposition
Ornery
Tea Cake's real name.
Vergible Woods
Leafy, Janie's mother, is off doing this throughout the course of the book.
Being/getting drunk.
The relationship that Janie and Tea Cake are compared to.
Annie Tyler and Who Flung
Two reasons the people of Eatonville didn't like Tea Cake when he started seeing Janie.
1. Janie stopped going to church
2. He didn't have any money himself
3. He was younger than Janie
4. Joe hadn't been dead a year
Emitting light without appreciable heat
Phosphorescent
Logan threatened to kill Janie in this manner, ultimately pushing her to leave with Joe.
Kill Janie with an ax
The assumed reason Janie was found "not guilty" for murdering Tea Cake in cold blood.
The white jury took pity on her because of her "light" skin.
This person is a cracked plate.
Nanny
The 4 (named) places in which the book is set.
Eatonville, Jacksonville, Muck, and Palm Beach
Coarse food composed of plants or leaves
Fodder
The number of times Tea Cake pulled the trigger to try and shoot Janie while rabid.
4 times
The amount of time between Joe's death and Janie's marriage to Tea Cake.
9 months
The man Joe bought a mule from for Janie.
Matt Bonner
The year "Their Eyes Were Watching God" was published.
1937