PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
LITERARY ELEMENTS
SETTING
100
What does Tea Cake die from?
Rabies
100
Who is Janie’s best friend?
Phoeby Watson
100
What is the name of the narrative strategy used with a first person and third person omniscient narrator?
Free indirect discourse
100
Where is Nanny's story about escaping slavery set?
Savannah
200
What does Joe die from (medically speaking)?
Kidney failure
200
Who is Janie’s first husband?
Logan Killicks
200
This novel is an example of a _____ ______ because it's a story within a story?
Frame story
200
Where did Janie and Joe marry?
Green Cove Springs
300
What does Joe buy for Eatonville with his own money from Sears Robuck, which the town is very proud of and has a party over?
Street lamp
300
Who is the woman in Belle Glade that likes Janie because of her lighter colored skin?
Mrs. Turner
300
Their Eyes Were Watching God has ________ diction since it uses African American vernacular at the time.
colloquial
300
Where does Janie discover that her secret $200 is missing?
Jacksonville
400
Where do Janie and Tea Cake meet?
The general store in Eatonville
400
What is the name of Janie's mother?
Leafy
400
This symbol represents Janie's motivations for her journey: pure love and sexual satisfaction
Pear tree
400
What city do Tea Cake and Janie journey towards during the hurricane and finally reach?
Palm Beach
500
What does Janie do right after Joe dies?
She takes off her head rag
500
Who was the original owner of the skinny mule that runs loose in Eatonville and is later bought by Joe until it dies?
Matt Bonner
500
What does the symbol of the horizon represent?
Hope/Ambition/Possibilities (similar answers)
500
From where does the doctor have to wire Tea Cake's medicine from?
Miami