2 Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz

Why does Janie decide to sell the store and leave town with Tea Cake?

• The people in Eatonville ran him out of town

• Tea Cake has a great job in Jacksonville that pays a lot of money.

• Janie never liked Eatonville.

• He would forever be compared to Joe Starkes

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Tea Cake taught Janie how to

• tie a rope

• beatbox

• lower her mile time

• shoot a gun

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Pheobe was worried that if Janie ran off with Tea Cake she would end up like

• Nanny

• Leafy

• Ms Tyler

• Sam Watson

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At 16, laying underneath the pear tree, Janie thought about

• romantic love and marriage

• Moving away from her home town

• Opening up a business and making a name for herself

• Finding her mother one day

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How did Tea Cake earn back the money he stole from Janie?

• Honest hard work

• Performing his music on his guitar

• Taking out a loan

• Gambling

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When Janie and Tea Cake go "on the muck," where are they?

• Tennessee

• On the Mississippi River

• The Everglades

• Eatonville

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What was NOT one of the signs that the hurricane was coming?

• The Native Americans leaving

• Janie had a dream that she and Tea Cake would die in a storm

• The animals leaving

• The air is still

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Why was Janie hesitant when Tea Cake first started flirting with her?

• What everyone else in the town would think

• His lack of money

• Their age difference

• She didn't have any worries at all

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Why does Janie compare Tea Cake to the pear tree? "He could be a bee to a blossom- a pear tree blossom in spring"

• The tree represents growth and their relationship has grown over time

• The tree represents her freedom from Jody Starks.

• The pear tree represents trust. She trusts Tea Cake enough to be with him

• He represents what she's always dreamed of: romantic love.

At the end of the novel, Janie feels:

• At peace

• Shame and regret

• Extreme anger

• Hyper

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