This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > American Classics > Their Eyes Were Watching God > Their Eyes Were Watching God – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 29 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the R in RADIO represent? A) Radioactive. B) Recent. C) Reliable. D) Restate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Restate. 2. What does Janie realize about her feelings towards Nanny after Joe dies? A) Janie hates her. B) Janie misses her. C) Janie wishes she could talk to her again. D) Janie was afraid of her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Janie hates her. 3. Janie was searching for (Common theme of the book) A) Love. B) Money. C) Growth. D) Independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love. 4. As soon as the woman goes into her house, what do the townspeople do? A) Have a party. B) Go inside the house with her. C) Sing. D) Gossip. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gossip. 5. What does Joe do after the big fight with Janie? A) He tells Janie to pack up and leave him. B) He moves into another bedroom in the house. C) He closes down the store. D) He apologizes to Janie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He moves into another bedroom in the house. 6. How many acres of land does Joe Starks buy to properly start the town of Eatonville? A) 100. B) 200. C) 300. D) 700. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 200. 7. Who is Janie telling her story to in Chapter 1? A) Connie. B) Jody. C) Phoeby. D) Patty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phoeby. 8. Which of the following does not describe Joe Starks? A) He was citified. B) He was stylishly dressed. C) He spoke with a Northern accent. D) He had money and ambitions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He spoke with a Northern accent. 9. "Every time I see a patch of roses, * makin' out Iike they're pretty, * I say to 'em, 'You ain't seen my Janie." ' Keep the commas OR delete the commas? A) Keep the commas. B) Delete the commas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keep the commas. 10. Because the fire was ..... in size, nearly every fire department in the city responded to the blaze. A) Mien. B) Languid. C) Pugnacious. D) Cosmic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cosmic. 11. Their Eyes Were Watching God was written by which author? A) Alice Walker. B) Langston Hughes. C) Zora Neale Hurston. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zora Neale Hurston. 12. What is considered the most powerful novel that Hurston had written? A) Their Eyes Were Watching God. B) Harlem Renaissance. C) She was a musician not a novelist. D) I've Got the Map of Florida on my Tongue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their Eyes Were Watching God. 13. Which word means soaked with water? A) Strides. B) Shabby. C) Sodden. D) Fracas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sodden. 14. What did Janie do about Joe Starks' proposal to her to come with him? A) She accepted it and left Logan. B) She rejected it and stayed with Logan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She accepted it and left Logan. 15. True or false janie is a light skin black women A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. In Chapter 2 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Nanny makes Janie get married because ..... A) She sees her kissing a boy. B) She has gotten pregnant. C) Nanny can no longer afford to take care of Janie. D) The boy's family is very wealthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She sees her kissing a boy. 17. Why does Joe Starks want to go to Florida? A) To take over a family farm near the Everglades. B) To move to a town being built and run by African Americans. C) To be with Janie, his childhood love. D) To sell a mule to Logan Killicks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To move to a town being built and run by African Americans. 18. When Joe gets sick, what's one of the reasons he doesn't get better? A) He trusts a "root doctor" to treat him instead of going to a real doctor. B) He refuses to take the medicine that he is given. C) Janie is secretly poisoning his dinner each night. D) Joe refuses to dress properly for the weather and he catches a cold that makes his poor health worse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He trusts a "root doctor" to treat him instead of going to a real doctor. 19. What did Zora Neale Hurston study at Columbia University? A) Biology. B) African-American Folklore. C) Anthropology. D) She never went to college even though she really wanted to. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthropology. 20. The vocab word that means a sacred or private place. A) Sanctum. B) Wallow. C) Predecessor. D) Refuge. 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