True/False
Janie
Tea Cake
Literary Elements
The Novel and Author
100
Janie is raised by her aunt.
What is False
100
When Janie returns to Eatonville, the gossips assume that
What is that Tea Cake ran off with a younger woman
100
Tea Cake takes Janie's $200 because he
What is has never felt rich before.
100
Janie plays with one of these which represents herself
What is a caterpillar
100
Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in this year
What is 1937
200
As a child, Janie is known by her nickname "Alphabet"
What is True
200
Janie shares her life story with
Who is Phoeby Watson
200
Tea Cake tells Janie that if he has no money for food, they
What is won't eat?
200
"Beautiful long, black rope" represents this
What is Janie's hair?
200
Zora Neale Hurston's work was part of this American literary movement
What is the Harlem Renaissance
300
Potential suitors are too intimidated by Janie's wealth to approach her after Joe's death.
What is False
300
Janie is astonished by the money Joe makes
What is selling property.
300
When Tea Cake asks Janie to work in the fields with him, Janie
What is happily joins him?
300
This favorite literary device of Mr. Harris is used when Janie understands what the trees and wind are saying.
What is personification?
300
Though hated by her contemporaries, the dialects in Their Eyes Were Watching God have been widely praised by critics. Hurston's ability to capture regional dialects is largely due to her degree in this field
What is Anthropology
400
Janie is warned by Hezekiah that Tea Cake is immoral.
What is False
400
Janie copes with her loveless marriage to Joe by
What is fantasizing about her pear tree.
400
Tea Cake starts a brawl in Mrs. Turner's restaurant by pretending to
What is defend her honor?
400
Which of Janie's features are most symbolic throughout the story?
What is her hair?
400
Though initially starting her academic career at Howard University, an all black college, Hurston transferred to this school becoming the college's sole black student.
What is Barnard College, Columbia University.
500
Phoebe attends Janie and Tea Cake's wedding
What is False
500
After Joe's death, Janie burns
What is her head rags?
500
Tea Cake believes that Mr. Turner is scared of
Who is Mrs. Turner
500
"Feels like something has fell off the shelf." This idiom used by Janie is referring to
Who is mayor Joe Starks?
500
Though only lasting seven months, Hurston married this man who was 25 years younger than her.
Who is Albert Price?