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He Said, She Said
Quotable Quotes
Memorable Moments
Who Said What?
If Memory Serves . . .
100
"Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree in the garden'?"
What does the snake say to Eve in the Garden?
100
"This is now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh."
How does Adam describe the creation of Eve in the second Creation story?
100
"I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception."
What is part of the punishment God gives to Eve for eating the apple?
100
"Nobody? I'll eat Nobody last of all his friends."
What does Polyphemus say to Odysseus when he is eating the crewmen?
100
"Janie, youse a 'oman now."
What is Nanny's response to Janie kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor?
200
"I had half a mind to draw the sharp sword from beside my hip and slice his head off."
What is Odysseus's response to Eurylochus when he resists returning to Circe's house after seeing the men turned to pigs?
200
"Love is lak de sea."
How does Janie describe love to Pheoby at the end of Their Eyes?
200
"Women forget those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget."
What is the narrator's opening thoughts to Their Eyes?
200
They "took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went [in] backwards."
Who are Noah's two sons [Shem and Japeth] who prevent themselves from seeing their father's nakedness?
200
"They became lords of sounds and lesser things."
How are the porchtalkers described at the start of Their Eyes?
300
"Hold back, you men of Ithaca, back from brutal war! Break off -- "
What is the first warning Athena gives Odysseus and his men when they are about to fight the families of the dead suitors?
300
"Ah felt like the world was cryin' extry and Ah ain't read de common news yet."
What does Janie say to Pheoby to explain why she is leaving town with Tea Cake?
300
"You will be like God, knowing good and evil."
What does the serpent say to Janie to tempt her to eat the apple?
300
"She had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things."
How does Janie make sense of Nanny's influence on her, after Joe's funeral?
300
"God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God."
What does the serpent say to Eve to tempt her to eat the apple?
400
"He had done found out how rich people feel."
What does Tea Cake think to himself about taking Janie's money in Jacksonville?
400
She "loved to deal in scraps."
How does Janie insultingly describe Nanny?
400
He says, "Let his name be Odysseus, the Son of Pain."
Who is Autolycus?
400
"Two sleek hounds went trotting at his heels, so the people all gazed in wonder."
Who is Telemachus at the first assembly?
400
"Let us make man in our image."
What does God say in the first Creation Story?
500
"He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footprints."
How does Janie describe Tea Cake when they are first falling in love in Eatonville?
500
It was "like the pecking order in a chicken yard."
What is Mrs. Turner's way of creating a racial hierarchy, putting herself in the middle?
500
"If any other woman of mine had come to me, rousing me out of sleep, with such a tale, I'd have her bundled back to her room in pain."
Who is Penelope speaking to Eurycleia when the nurse comes to tell her Odysseus is in the palace?
500
"A little war of defense for helpless things was going on inside her."
What does Janie think about the teasing of Matt Bonner's mule?
500
"A servant for servants he shall be to his brethren."
What does Noah say as a curse to Ham?