Merc's TEWWG Quiz 3 Chapters 7-15

What does Janie do to cope with her feelings of being trapped in a meaningless life and marriage?

• She reads a lot as a way of escaping into an imaginary world.
• She cheats on her husband, Joe.
• She becomes bitter and argumentative.
• She pretends to watch herself from a distance—for example, her spirit or imagination will go sit under a tree while her body remains in the store.

Why did Joe begin to berate Janie about her age?

• Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because he wanted a younger woman.

• Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because he liked to keep the honesty in their marriage.

• Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because he was projecting his insecure feelings about his age onto her.

• Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because she was becoming to "mouthy" with him.

How long were Janie and Joe married?

• 20 years

• 15 years

• 10 years

• 7 years

Who is being described in the following passage?

"Then too she noticed how baggy he was getting all over. Like bags hanging from an ironing board. A little sack hung from the corners of his eyes and rested on his cheek-bones; a loose filled bag of feathers hung from his ears and rested on his neck beneath his chin A sack of flabby something hung from his loins and rested on his thighs when he sat down" (Hurston 77).

• Joe "Jody" Starks

• Sam Watson

• Tea Cake

• Hezekiah

What does Janie do that finally drives a permanent wedge between her and Joe for the remainder of their marriage?

• She insults Joe's manhood in front of the whole store full of men.

• She beats Joe at checkers.

• She hits Joe back when Joe hits her.

• She tells Joe she wishes he was dead.

What does Jody do to Janie in front of many of the men at the store when he feels belittled by her?

• He hits Janie as hard as he can

• He laughs in an attempt to diffuse the tension

• He apologizes to Janie

• He violently throws her out of town

When Joe gets sick, what's one of the reasons he doesn't get better?

• He trusts a "root doctor" to treat him instead of going to a real doctor.

• He refuses to take the medicine that he is given.

• Janie is secretly poisoning his dinner each night.

• Joe refuses to dress properly for the weather and he catches a cold that makes his poor health worse.

"So Janie began to think of Death. Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West."
What literary element is "Death"?

• Oxymoron
• Antithesis
• Personification
• Anaphora

What does Janie tell her husband just before he dies?

• She wants him to know that he isn't the man she ran down the road with.

• He is a man who wants to hear only his own voice.

• He is going to die and there is not hope of recovery.

• Janie tells him everything that is in the other answer choices.

What is one of the first things Janie does after Joe dies?

• She removes the kerchief covering her hair.

• She takes Joe's wedding ring off of his finger.

• She immediately sells the store and burns the post office to the ground.

• She falls to the floor weeping.