Show:
The Word
Rising Action
Falling Action and Climax
Characterize me This
Lessons Learned
100
Speech or prasie about a dead person
What is a eulogy?
100
Joe Starks buys this from Matt Bonner for five dollars.
What is Matt's mule?
100
Tea Cake makes three failed attempts at this in chapter 19. I guess Janie was right to take precautions.
What is shoot Janie?
100
In chapter 15, Janie gets real jealous of me and chases me through the cane fields. She don't catch me though.
Who is Nunkie?
100
When Janie leaves the Muck, she only takes this one thing her, perhaps to remind her of the growth Tea Cake always encouraged in her.
What is a packet of garden seeds?
200
Widely known or easily identified
What is Prominence?
200
In chapter six, Janie makes this mistake, and Joe slaps her for it.
What is ruin dinner?
200
After the trial Janie decides to bury Tea Cake in this city instead of the muck, because, "the 'glades was too low for him to lie with water maybe washing over him with every heavy rain."
What is Palm Beach?
200
It is ironic, I must admit, but I'm the only person in the whole book who doesn't like black people.
Who is Mrs. Turner?
200
Janie comes to the conclusion that love is like this, "its a movin' thinkg, but still and all it takes its shape from de shore it meets and its different on every shore."
What is the sea?
300
Rising again, as from decay or disuse; revival
What is resurrection?
300
Janie burns these the night of Joe's funeral.
What are all her head rags?
300
Contrary to what one might think, these people believed in Janie, while these people accused her.
What are white people and black people?
300
When the hurricane started toward us, we were the first to be smart enough to move to higher ground. Guess its all that experience. We were the ones who lived in the 'glades the longest.
Who are the Seminoles? (Native Americans, Indians)
300
Janie has discovered that there are "two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go to" this, "and they got tuh find out about" this.
What is God and Life?
400
To suggest or hint slyly.
What is insinuation?
400
What does Janie want to sell before she marries Tea Cake?
What is the store?
400
During Janie's trial, she expects this person to "tell the twelve men to kill her for shooting Tea Cake," but he doesn't. In fact, he refuses to allow possibly damaging hearsay testimony from being used against her.
Who is Mr. Prescott, the prosecutor?
400
I am the one who really did Tea Cake in, even though they accused Janie of it.
Who is the rabid dog?
500
inclined to fight readily; quarrelsome or belligerent
What is Pugnaciously?
500
Janie learns this "manly" occupation in the Everglades.
What is hunting/to shoot guns?
500
The literary term for the moment when Janie is forced to shoot Tea Cake.
What is the climax?
500
I took a moonlight cruise in a big 'ol house, and woke up none the worst for wear. Guess my habits match my name.
Who is Motorboat?
500
At the very end of the book, Janie finds this, and it keeps her from despairing over the loss of Tea Cake.
What is peace?