Teewg Quiz

Read the passage from Chapter 5 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Janie soon began to feel the impact ..." and ends "everybody had their say” (pages 46-bottom to page-48-bottom of first paragraph) carefully before you choose your answers.

Question- It can be inferred from the first paragraph that Janie

• feels alienated from the townspeople

• regards the townspeople disdainfully

• mediates between Starks and the community

• holds herself to a new standard of responsibility

• takes advantage of her position

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Read the passage from Chapter 5 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Janie soon began to feel the impact ..." and ends "everybody had their say” (pages 46-bottom to page-48-bottom of first paragraph) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: In the second paragraph, the phrase "bow-down” serves to suggest both

• Janie's respect for her husband and her growing distance from him

• Starks's status in the black community and his lack of it in the white community

• the history of black people as slaves and as independent citizens

• male dominance in the social hierarchy and women's criticism of it (

• Starks's own attitude and the way the townspeople view him

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Read the passage from Chapter 6 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Ah know uh few things” and ends "a bow to the outside of things” (pages 71-72) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q:In the third paragraph (beginning “Times and scenes”), Janie's thoughts about her

marriage serve to indicate her

• desire for revenge against her husband

• view of herself as inferior to Joe

• inability to overlook her husband's faults

• wish for independence from Joe

• resentment of Joe' belittlement

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Read the passage from Chapter 6 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Ah know uh few things” and ends "a bow to the outside of things” (pages 71-72) carefully before you choose your answers.

In context, the phrase "petal-open” in the fifth paragraph suggests

• freshness and vitality

• tenderness and vulnerability

• youth and beauty

• flattery and praise

• fragility and transience

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Passage Read the passage from Chapter 8 which begins “She cried often in the weeks ..." and ends “like some helpless thing seeking shelter” (pages 83-3rd paragraph to 85-top) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: Which of the following is true of the townspeople's attitude toward Janie throughout the passage?

• It changes from pity to satisfaction.

• It alternates between indifference and disdain

• It becomes less hostile

• It shifts from respect to suspicion

• It transforms into mockery.

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Read the passage from Chapter 9 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Janie found out very soon” and ends at the end of the chapter (page 90-2nd paragraph to page-93) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: With respect to the other would-be suitors, Ike Green most likely represents a man who...

• has more to offer financially

• is more sincerely concerned for Janie

• is hypocritical

• is typical of the group

• has known Janie longer

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Read the passage from Chapter 9 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Janie found out very soon” and ends at the end of the chapter (page 90-2nd paragraph to page-93) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: Janie's attitude toward Hezekiah's imitation of Joe could best be described as one of

• derision

• indulgence

• annoyance

• glee

• indifference

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Read the passage from Chapter 13 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins at the beginning of the chapter and ends "she worried time like a bone" (pages 111-113) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: In the first paragraph, the two sentences which begins "No need for Janie" and end "right from the train" represent...

• Janie's hopes for her future

• the narrator's hints about what is to come

• the content of Tea Cake's letter to Janie

• Janie's sense of what others expected of her

• an objective record of what occured

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Read the passage from Chapter 13 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins at the beginning of the chapter and ends "she worried time like a bone" (pages 111-113) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: In the third paragraph, the train is described primarily by means of...

• similie

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• repetition

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Read the passage from Chapter 13 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins at the beginning of the chapter and ends "she worried time like a bone" (pages 111-113) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: By describing Pheoby's advice to Janie in the fourth paragraph, the narrator primarily

• illustrates Janie's gullibility regarding Tea Cake

• emphasizes Pheoby's practical perspective

• implies Janie's level of desperation

• suggests a conspiracy against Tea Cake

• reveals Pheoby's scheming disposition

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