Their Eyes Were Watching God Skills Assessment

Which of the following best describes the difference between men and women, according to the text?

• Men only wish for achievable things, whereas women tend to wish for unrealistic things.

• Men are passive toward their dreams, whereas women work to make their dreams real.

• Men are often secretly scared and self-doubting, whereas women are bold and brave.

• Men and women both work hard to make their dreams come to fruition.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What does the following passage most closely suggest about Janie (paragraphs 5-6)?

Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive, Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song. "What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she find no dress to put on? -- Where's dat blue satin dress she left here in? -- Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her? -- What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin' wid her hair swingin' down her back lak some young gal? Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid? -- Thought she was going to marry? -- Where he left her? -- What he done wid all her money? -- Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain't even got no hairs -- why she don't stay in her class?"

• Janie is concerned with what others think.

• Janie thinks she is better than everyone else.

• Janie does not do what society expects.

• Janie is a tomboy.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does this passage suggest about the ways men and women view Janie differently?

The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume; then her pugnacious breasts trying to bore holes in her shirt. They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye. The women took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away for remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if it turned out of no significance, still it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day.

• Janie is intentionally trying to attract the townspeople’s attention

• the townspeople are all jealous of Janie, in one way or another

• Janie will be sexually threatened later on in the story by the men of the town

• the men are attracted to Janie, while the women are threatened by her

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following inferences about Pheoby is best supported by the text?

• She is a loyal friend to Janie.

• She doesn’t have any friends other than Janie..

• She wishes she could be as free-spirited as Janie.

• She is naturally impatient with others.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to the previous question?

• “‘You mean, you mad 'cause she didn't stop and tell us all her business; Anyhow, what you ever know her to do so bad as y'all make out? The worst thing Ah ever knowed her to do was taking a few years offa her age and dat ain't never harmed nobody. Y'all makes me tired.’”

• “You have to 'scuse me, 'cause Ah'm bound to go take her some supper.”

• “Pheoby Watson hitched her rocking chair forward before she spoke.”

• “'Tain't no use in your tryin' to cloak no ole woman lak Janie Starks, Pheoby, friend or no friend.”

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3