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“Ah told you in de very first beginnin’ dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, ‘cause dat makes uh big woman outa you.”
Joe Starks
100

The person to whom Janie is telling her story

Who is Phoeby Watson

100

What scene serves to first awaken Janie to her womanhood?

What is the pear-tree scene

100

Who is this quote describing? 

"He was a vanishing-looking kind of man as if there used to be parts of him that stuck out individually but now he hadn’t a thing about him that wasn’t dwindled and blurred.”

Who is Mr. Turner

200
“Come help me move dis manure pile befo’ de sun gits hot. You don’t take a bit of interest in dis place. ‘Taint no use in foolin’ round in dat kitchen all day long.”
Logan Killicks
200

What "shocking"  clothing is Janie wearing when she returns to Eatonville?

Dirty Overalls

200

How does Joe make himself feel "god-like" as he is establishing the city of Eatonville?

What is he brings the first street light to Eatonville

200
This caused the end of Janie's childhood
The kiss with Johnny Taylor
300
The woman who looks down upon African Americans and is friends with Janie because she is light-skinned
Mrs. Turner
300

“So long as they get a name to gnaw on they don’t care whose it is, and what about, ‘specially if they can make it sound like evil.”

Pheoby

300
The first thing Tea Cake shows Janie to do
Play checkers
300

The best symbol to demonstrate the fact that communities sometimes bond through playful teasing

What is Matt Bonner's mule?

300

Who is Janie thinking about when the narrator expresses her thought as "mourning shouldn't last any longer than grief."

Who is Joe Starks

400
When Janie leaves with Tea Cake, she is warned that she may end up like this couple--the man took all the lady's money
Annie Tyler and Who Flung
400
“Janie is wherever Ah wants tuh be. Dat’s de kind uh wife she is and Ah love her for it.”
Tea Cake
400

This character vouched for Janie during the courtroom scene.

Who is Dr. Simmons

400

What feature of Janie's does Hurston use to symbolize her beauty, the subjugation by men, and her independence?

Her hair

400

When Joe died, this character tried to replace him by asserting his masculinity over Janie in the store, but she quickly stifled his attempts.

Hezikiah 

500

For a minor character, he receives a tremendous amount of development: a friend and conspirator with Teacake, as well as both an adversary and finally an ally to Janie.

Who is Motor Boat

500
“Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.”
Janie
500
Janie breaks her silence on the store porch to say this
To tell the men on the porch that they don’t know as much about women as they think they do
500

How is Social Identity Theory evident in the scenes when Teacake is courting Janie?

The townsfolk "other" Teacake--or

Janie wears a blue dress to signify she identifies with Teacake--or

Teacake tries to be in the in-group by bringing Janie to the community picnic

500
What Tea Cake does with Janie's $200
Buys an elaborate dinner