Vocabulary
To violate the sacred character of a place and/or language.
Desecrate
The order of Janie's marriages.
Logan, Joe, Tea Cake
The age in which Janie married for the first time.
16
This character is extremely prejudiced.
Mrs. Turner
Janie is returning from doing this at the beginning of the novel.
Burying Tea Cake
To be fearless or daring
Temerity
Tea Cake's real name.
Vergible Woods
The jobs that Janie's grandfather and father had.
Grandfather = Slave Owner
Father = Teacher
The person that Janie and Tea Cake ventured through the hurricane with.
Motor Boat
The term used to refer to the Everglades.
The Muck
Having a difficult or contrary disposition
Ornery
Joe has Janie do this out of jealousy.
Hide her hair
Leafy, Janie's mother, is off doing this throughout the course of the book.
Being/getting drunk.
This person is a cracked plate.
Nanny
This is what people suspect after Joe starts growing ill.
Emitting light without appreciable heat
Phosphorescent
The number of times Tea Cake fired at Janie while rabid.
4 times
The assumed reason Janie was found "not guilty" for murdering Tea Cake in cold blood.
The white jury took pity on her because of her "light" skin.
The man that Joe bought the mule from for Janie.
Matt Bonner
The year "Their Eyes Were Watching God" was published.
1937
Coarse food composed of plants or leaves
Fodder
The reason Joe constantly insults Janie's appearance in the latter years of their marriage.
To draw attention away from his own age and declining appearance.
The amount of time between Joe's death and Janie's marriage to Tea Cake.
9 months
The relationship that Janie's third marriage is repeatedly compared to.
Annie Tyler and Who Fung
The 4 (named) places in which the book is set.
Eatonville, Jacksonville, Muck, and Palm Beach