Their Eyes Were Watching God

In Chapter 1 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, the women of Eatonville gossip about Janie because _____.

• she gets pregnant before getting married
• she has returned to town after running off with a younger man
• she is cheating on her husband, Joe Starks
• she has gone bankrupt

How did Janie realize she was not white?

• The other kids told her

• Nanny told her

• She saw a picture

• She looked in a mirror

Whati is being personified? The empty tree branches bent and howled in the wind.

• tree

• branches

• wind

In Chapter 3 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie goes to visit her grandmother after she marries Logan because _____.

• Logan is beating her
• she wants to tell her grandmother she is pregnant
• her grandmother is sick
• she is disappointed that she doesn't love Logan

What does the following quotation suggest is wrong with Janie's and Joe's relationship?
"Ah often wonder how dat lit wife uh hisn makes out wid him, 'cause he's uh man dat changes everything, but nothin' don't change him."

• Joe thinks that Janie is cheating on him, but won't change his schedule to spy on her and find out.
• Joe changes everything in the house without giving Janie a chance to give her opinion.
• Joe thinks of his wife as a possession under his control. He doesn't think she has anything to contribute to his plans.
• Janie has big dreams of running away and leaving Joe behind, but Joe has found out and will not allow Janie to be out of his sight.

What happens when the townspeople ask Janie to make a speech as the newly elected mayor's wife?

• She does so well that her speech receives more compliments than her husband's speech.
• She starts to talk but gets nervous and stutters, eventually making a graceless exit.
• Her husband steps in and says that his wife isn't a speech-making sort of woman.
• She refuses.

Hurston spends a lot of time describing the goings-on that occur in the space in front of a building—whether that space is a porch or the store front. Which of the following is not an accurate statement regarding that space?

• Town members exchange news, gossip, and other pleasantries in front of the store and on porches.

• The storefront and porches are community meeting places.

• Porches and storefronts provide a space for practicing and celebrating the oral nature of a traditional southern community like the one in Eatonville.

• Women dominate what occurs on porches and in front of the store.

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.

What event in Janie's marriage convinces her that Joe isn't the wonderful man she thought she was marrying?

• Joe slaps her around the kitchen because the dinner she cooks for him isn't good.
• Joe is angry that Janie wanted to save the mule.
• Janie does not keep the house tidy.
• Joe slapped Janie for trying to make a large purchase without him.

When Jody began insulting Janie about her age, who did he compare her to in Chapter 7?

• Eve
• Phoebe
• Mrs. Turner
• Methusala