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Janie's most noticeable feature

Her long, beautiful hair

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
The woman who raised Janie
Nanny
200

Janies mother

Leafy
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 person to whom Janie is telling her life story
Pheoby
200
The novel was written as a part of this period in time
The Harlem Renaissance
200
This caused the end of Janie's childhood
The kiss with Johnny Taylor
300

Tea Cakes real name

Vergible Woods

300

"Dey all useter call me Alphabet ’cause so many people had done named me different names"

Janie

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

The year the novel was published

1937

300
Joe forces Janie to do this out of jealousy
Wear a head rag
400

Janie goes fishing with this person in the night

Tea Cake

400

“When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life.”

Janie

400

Where the town is at when Janie and Tea Cake meet

A baseball game
400

3 symbols in the novel

Pear Tree, Horizon, Janie's hair, Mule

400

The person who is most like Jody and runs the store after he died

Hezekiah

500

Character who looks out for Janie when she begins seeing Tea Cake

Hezekiah

500

“Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah’m lyin’. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom.”

Tea Cake

500

Janie breaks her silence on the store porch when Jody is alive 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

The series of short stories that predates TEWWG written by Zora Neale Hurston about the same town and people

The Eatonville Anthology

500

What Janie and Tea Cake do in chapter 11 in the battered car

Go on a picnic