Author
Characters
Events
Quotes
Literary Devices
100
The full name of the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
100
Character(s) that value consumerism (materialism) above romantic love.
Who are are Nanny and Joe Starks?
100
when Alphabet learns she is black.
What is when the Washburn children have their picture taken with Janie?
100
Mrs. Bogle sings: "We'll walk in de light, de beautiful light Come where the dew drops of mercy shine bright Shine all around us by day and by night Jesus, the light of the world" (46).
What is the raising of the first street lamp in Eatonville?
100
"She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net" (193).
What is a simile?
200
The name of the town that made such an impression on the author in her youth that she included it in her novel?
What is Eatonville?
200
Janie's true love's full name.
Who is Vergible "Tea Cake" Woods?
200
the reason Nanny is so afraid of men
What is her and her daughter's rape?
200
"She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tinest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight" (11).
What is Janie's sexual awakening beneath the pear tree?
200
"What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him? He stands in his high house that overlooks the world. Stands watchful and motionless all day with his sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bid him come" (84).
What is personification?
300
The author's work was part of which literary movement?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
The original, cruel owner of the mule Joe buys for 5 dollars.
Who is Matt Bonner?
300
causes the Indians and animals to leave "the muck"
What is the hurricane?
300
"Tea Cake, you sho is a lucky man...Uh person can see every place you hit her. Ah bet she never raised her hand tuh hit yuh back, neither. ...Ah done quit beatin' mah woman. You can't make no mark on 'em at all. Lawd! wouldn't Ah love tuh whip uh tender woman lak Janie! Ah bet she don't even holler. She jus' cries, eh Tea Cake?" (147-148).
What is Sop-de-Bottom's speech revealing how real men demand a woman's submissiveness and the value of physical abuse as a literal, physical sign of ownership and superiority.
300
"He could be a bee to a blossom--a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God."
What is a metaphor?
400
The event in the author's life that inspired her to write Their Eyes Were Watching God?
What is her escape from her passionate/abusive relationship with Percival McGuire Punter?
400
aka "Mouth-Almighty"
Who are the porch sitters?
400
When the "strange being with the huge square toes who lived in the way West" arrives
What is Joe's death?
400
"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so ________________."
What is "she became a woman"? This realization marks the end of Janie's childhood.
400
the style of writing Hurston invented for her novel
What is free and indirect discourse?
500
Where the author wrote her novel and how long it took.
What is Haiti in seven weeks?
500
Characters that argue about whether it is "nature" or "caution" that "keeps uh man from gettin' burnt on uh red-hot stove" (64).
Who are Sam Watson and Lige Moss?
500
when Janie starts thinking about Annie Tyler and Who Flung
What is when Tea Cake runs off with her 200 dollars?
500
"All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. ...Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. ...Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood" (145).
What is the explanation of Mrs. Turner's hero worship of Janie, despite Janie's coldness towards her. This passage is also significant because it shows how deeply violence is embedded in this culture, even their God lacks mercy or softness (hence why no one prays to him during the hurricane). It suggests that life will demand sacrifice and hardship from everyone. How is this true in Janie's life?
500
"But she stayed in bed long after he was gone. ...After a long time of passive happiness, she got up and opened the window and let Tea Cake leap forth and mount to the sky on a wind" (107). "You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit to die" (138).
What is hyperbole?
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