TEWWG Ch. 7-13 Quiz

Who does Pheoby refer to as a "multiplied cockroach"?

• Janie

• Joe

• Joe's root-doctor

• Sam

What does Janie do right after Joe dies and before she tells the townsfolk gathered that he has died?

• She cleans Joe's body and changes his bed clothes.

• She yells at the root-doctor and sends him away.

• She takes off her head kerchief, lets does her hair, and then puts it back up.

Identify the following quotation: "Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah means tuh live mine."

• Janie tells Tea Cake that she is not going to live like women did in her grandma's time. She wants a relationship where the man and woman are equal.

• Janie tells Pheoby that she is going to stop living the way her grandmother had wanted her to -- sitting on the front porch like a white madam. Janie wants to live like a common person and focus on love instead of material wealth.

• Janie tells Joe that she is not going to live like her grandmother, who was a slave. She is not going to take orders anymore.

What game does Tea Cake teach Janie how to play when they first meet?

• chess

• dice

• checkers

• poker

One night when Tea Cake and Janie first start spending time together, he brings fish to her house for dinner. After they eat, Janie falls asleep while he plays the piano. What is Tea Cake doing when she wakes up?

• He is rubbing her feet.

• He is reading her diary.

• He is combing her hair.

Identify the following quotation: "You got de keys to de kingdom."

• Tea Cake proclaiming his love to Janie.

• Janie is telling Joe that he has total control of Eatonville.

• Janie is telling Hezekiah that he is now in charge of the store.

• Pheoby is telling Janie that she can do whatever she wants now that Joe is dead.

What story haunts Janie as she waits for Tea Cake to return after he disappears with her money?

• The story that Pheoby had told her about Tea Cake taking advantage of older women in the past.

• The story of Annie Tyler, whose husband Who Flung had gone to get breakfast one morning and was murdered by a robber.

• The story of Annie Tyler, a widow who left town with Who Flung, a much younger man. He had promised to marry her, but he stole her money and ran.

Which of the following did Tea Cake NOT do with Janie's money?

• He bought a guitar.

• He paid ugly women to not come to his party.

• He had a chicken and macaroni supper, free to all.

• He threw dollar bills in the air at his party for people to catch.

What happens when Tea Cake tries to win Janie's money back gambling?

• Tea Cake loses all his money playing dice.

• Tea Cake is stabbed by one of the other players, but Tea Cake still has the money.

• He is mugged at gunpoint on his way home and is shot in the thigh.