Their Eyes Were Watching God Test Review

Janie wants her best friend to relate her story to the townspeople on her behalf. We know this because she says

• "Mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."

• "An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."

• "The oldest of human longings is self revelation."

• "Two things everybody got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why was Janie's mother named Leafy?

• Nanny had sex with the plantation master in the leafy forests

• Nanny hid her in the leafy moss when she ran away from the plantation

• A blossoming pear tree bloomed in Nanny’s back yard

• That is Nanny’s real name too.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

A symbol of opportunity in the novel is

• the gate

• the pear tree

• the porch

• the horizon

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When Joe pays Matt Bonner $5 for his yellow mule, this is a subtle allusion to whom?

• God

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• General Sherman

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Before attending Joe’s funeral, Janie “starched and ironed” her

• chiffon veil

• black dress

• face

• all of the above

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of these things does Tea Cake NOT do when he runs off with Janie's money?

• Pays the pretty women to come to his party

• Buys all of his friends macaroni and chicken

• Pays the ugly women not to come into his party

• Breaks the teeth of a man who eats all the chicken gizzards

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

At the end of the novel, Janie drapes ______ around her shoulders?

• the horizon

• Tea Cake’s guitar

• her hair

• the pear tree

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What did Janie say about mourning and grief?

• She said they should both last for the same amount of time as one had known the person.

• She said they should not be expressed publicly.

• She said she mourned for Joe but grieves for herself.

• She said mourning shouldn’t last any longer than grief.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Match the following with the correct descriptor: Phoeby Watson

• the central character of the novel

• heard Janie’s story first

• the woman Tea Cake flirt with

• Janie’s mother

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following was not one of Tea Cake's symptoms?

• He had a fever.

• He couldn't swallow.

• He had a rash all over.

• He became delirious.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4