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What causes Nanny to marry Janie off to Logan?
Janie kissing Johnny Taylor
"S'posin' Ah was to run off and leave yuh sometime."
Janie
The first boy Janie kissed
Johnny Taylor
When does Janie first realize she isn't white like the kids she grew up playing with?
she sees a photograph
How does Janie eventually realize she feels about Nanny?
She hates her
What does Tea Cake ask Janie to play with him?
Checkers
"My wife don't know nothin' about no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home."
Joe Starks
Janie's mother's name
Leafy
Where was Tea Cake trying to go when he ended up in Janie's store?
Baseball game
The psychological term for the debate that Sam Watson and Lige Moss debate.
Nature vs Nurture
Why wouldn't Joe let Janie cook for him?
Afraid of being poisoned
'Lawd! Ah done growd ten feet higher from jus' listenin' tuh you' Chapter 2
Pheoby
Tea Cake's real name
Vergible Woods
The name of the 1st African American town
Eatonville
What follows this quote: "What killed this man?"
"Bare, bare fat."
How long has Janie been away from her hometown at the beginning of the novel?
1.5 years
"Dat 'oman ain't so awfully pretty no how when yuh take de second look at her...'Taint nothin to her 'ceptin' dat long hair." Chapter 5
Hicks
What was Janie's nickname as a child?
Alphabet
Who is Janie's best friend? spelling Counts!
Pheoby
Tea Cake shows reciprocal love for Janie in Chapter 11 by doing this.
Brushing her hair
The activity that Tea Cake invites Janie to come to in Chapter 10
a picnic
'Jes lak uh lil girl wid her Easter dress on.' Chapter 10
Tea Cake
Owner of the mule
Matt Bonner
Janie is best known for what physical attribute?
Her hair
The "fiend from hell" that arrives at "Janie's ear" at the end of chapter 11.
Doubt