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Characters
Plot Summary
Key Quotes
Literary Techniques
Themes/Motifs
100
Which husband leads Janie to run off with him w hen he promises to treat her like a princess?
Who is Joe Starks
100
Janie get scolded by Nanny for kissing this character in chapter 2
Johnny Taylor
100
The line "Tain't Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have baby, it's protection" is spoken by...
What is Nanny
100
Janie returning to Eatonville in chapter 1 and retelling her past to Phoebe Watson for most of the novel is an example of which literary format?
frame narrative
100
Which motif represents Janie's ideal representation of love?
What is the pear tree
200
What is the name of the town Janie and Joe travel to?
What is Eatonville
200
What game does Tea Cake teach Janie to play, even though Joe had forbid it?
checkers
200
DOUBLE POINTS!--The line "You behind a plow! You ain't got no mo' business wid uh plow than uh hog is got wid uh holiday!" is spoken by:
What is Joe Starks
200
The image of Nanny tying the horizon so tightly around Janie’s neck that it could “choke her” is an example of which literary device?
personification
200
The front porch in Their Eyes Were Watching God represents ____________.
judgement and/or acceptance
300
Out of Janie's relationships, which man is younger than her?
Who is Tea Cake
300
What does Joe die of in chapter 8?
organ failure
300
The line "Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kind hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom" is spoken by:
What is Tea Cake
300
The narrator's comment "they made burning statements out of questions and killing tools out of laughs" to describe the women of Eatonville's response to Janie is an example of which literary device?
personification
300
The line "What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she find no dress to put on?" best fits which of the following themes?
What is class
400
What did Logan Killicks expect from Janie in their relationship?
What is to work in the field instead of staying in the house.
400
Where do Janie and Tea Cake meet for the first time?
the store
400
The line "mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural, but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up" best fits which of the following themes?
What is gender roles
400
HOT POTATO: CAN PASS TO ANOTHER UNSUSPECTING GROUP--The line “The silence was the sleep of swords” that describes the atmosphere in their house following Janie and Joe’s fight is an example of which literary device?
metaphor or alliteration
400
The line "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" best fits which of the following themes?
What is gender or coming of age
500
What two things cause the people of Eatonville to claim that Joe acts white?
What are living in the "big house," and bossing around members of the town
500
To where is Janie returning at the start of the novel (chapter 1)?
Eatonville
500
The line "us colored folks is branches without roots" best fits which of the following themes?
What is race
500
The line “They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.” Describing how the town of Eatonville treats Joe is an example of which literary device?
paradox or situational irony
500
What THREE things does Janie's hair represent?
Her beauty, power, and mixed race