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Context and the Big Picture
Multiple Choice
100

Janie's true love, he treats her different from her other husbands because he does not make her conform to stereotypical gender roles

Tea Cake

100
“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
What Janie is wearing when she returns to Eatonville
Dirty overalls
100
The author's full name
Zora Neale Hurston
100

Janie's removal of her head rags after Joe's death signifies...

A. Her liberation from Joe's Domination

B. Her realization that she is still attractive

C. The transition from possession to companion

D. Her status at the First Woman of Eatonville

A. Her liberation from Joes Domination


200

Janie's best friend in Eatonville, they sit on the porch together and Janie tells her story

Pheoby

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

The first thing Tea Cake shows Janie to do

Play Checkers

200
The novel was written as a part of this period in time
The Harlem Renaissance
200

Why does Nanny come to the conclusion that she hates Nanny?

A. Nanny valued the wrong things in life

B. Nanny chose an inappropriate husband for her

C. Nanny did not prepare her for the life of a mayor's wide

D. Nanny drove her from her home at too young an age

A. Nanny valued the wrong things in life

300

Janie's first husband, he was very old and beat her.

Logan Killicks

300
“So long as they get a name to gnaw on they don’t are whose it is, and what about, ‘specially if they can make it sound like evil.”
Pheoby
300

The term used to refer to the Everglades in the novel

The muck

300
The author herself shares many traits with this character
Janie
300

Hurston's portrayal of white society in the novel suggests that racism is...

A. Both social and individual

B. Strictly regional

C. A social conflict, not a character flaw

D. A learned, not inherited, trait

C. A social conflict, not a character flaw

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

Janie breaks her silence on the store porch to say this: (It is her first time to speak out)

To tell the men on the porch that they don’t know as much about women as they think they do

400

These are two major motifs/symbols in the novel

Hair & Nature

400

What setting is evoked by Hurston's description of the Everglades?

A. Mt. Olympus

B. The Garden of Eden

C. The Elysian Fields

D. Heaven


B. The Garden of Eden

500
The girl who flirts with Tea Cake in the Everglades
Nunkie
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

What is the significance of the title now that you have read the book? What central issue does the title establish?

It emphasizes how humans attempt to control their own lives

500

What major concepts does the novel challenge? (Name at least 2)

Gender Roles

Racism

True Love

Power 

Humanity & Nature

500

What theme is suggested by the white male jury and the white women's reactions to Janie's defense?

A. The black woman is the mule of the world

B. A woman needs to tell her own story in her own voice

C. Love conquers all

D. White society does not care about black crime

B. A woman needs to tell her own story in her own voice