The Eyes Were Watching God

"...her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods-come and gone with the sun.  She got nothing from Jody except what money could buy..."
What does this show is missing from Janie and Joe's marriage?

• Love
• Material items
• A Pet
• Nothing.  They had everything they wanted

Approximately how long had Janie and Joe been married by the end?

• 17 years
• 20 years
• 7 years
• 35 years

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

• Oxymoron
• Antithesis
• Personification
• Anaphora

"Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon - for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you - and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her."
According to this excerpt, how did Janie feel about Nanny?

• Resentful
• Sorrowful
• Prideful
• Joyous

According to Jaine, "mourning oughtn't tuh last no longer'n ______."

• love
• fear
• grief
• happiness

True/False: Joe Starks apologized to Janie for how he acted before he died.

• True
• False

After Joe's death, what did Janie have to worry about?

• Snakes
• Judgement Day
• Running for Mayor
• Marrying Again

What was an attribute about Janie that made men want to marry her?

• All of these
• She was lonely.
• She had low standards.
• She was attractive

What was Janie insecure about when Tea Cake first started courting her?

• his financial means
• their age difference
• the opinion of the town's people
• She did not worry about anything.

Tea Cake leaves then comes back  the next day to tell Janie his "daytime thoughts." Based on this context, what are daytime thoughts?

• Thoughts a person thinks about when the sun is up.
• Thoughts that aren't made "in the moment" but are sincere.
• Thoughts about the weather.
• Thoughts about a day's plan.