This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > American Classics > Their Eyes Were Watching God > Their Eyes Were Watching God – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 37 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was the name of the town Janie and Joe moved to? A) Eatonville. B) Eatonville. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eatonville. 2. Nanny says, "the black woman is the ..... of the world." A) Mule. B) Preacher. C) Teacher. D) Royalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mule. 3. What does Joe make Janie do with her hair? A) Cut it. B) Nothing. C) Tie it up. D) Color it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tie it up. 4. What does Janie let Tea Cake do that none of the other men have been able to do? A) Borrow some money. B) Come up on her porch. C) Buy her a soda. D) Take her to dinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Come up on her porch. 5. The town began to notice Tea Cake and Janie's relationship A) Right before the picnic. B) After the picnic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After the picnic. 6. Name the literary device being used in the following line: "The sun had gone, but had left his footprints in the sky." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. The character Janie suspected of having an affair with her husband. A) Mrs. Turner. B) Pheoby. C) Leafy. D) Nunkie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nunkie. 8. The vocab word that means a hint or suggestion of something bad A) Scorn. B) Wallow. C) Insinuation. D) Desolation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Insinuation. 9. To whom does Janie tell the story of her life? A) The townspeople on the porch. B) Her new husband Tea Cake. C) Phoeby Watson. D) Nobody. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phoeby Watson. 10. What does Janie do to cope with her feelings of being trapped in a meaningless life and marriage? A) She reads a lot as a way of escaping into an imaginary world. B) She cheats on her husband, Joe. C) She becomes bitter and argumentative. D) 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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. 11. What do people think about Joe when he buys the mule? A) He is selfish. B) He is compared to Donald Trump. C) He is noble. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is noble. 12. What was NOT one of the signs that the hurricane was coming? A) The Native Americans leaving. B) The air is still. C) The animals leaving. D) Janie had a dream that she and Tea Cake would die in a storm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Janie had a dream that she and Tea Cake would die in a storm. 13. Joe spoke about his plans for the town repeatedly A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. What one event is destroys Janie & Joe's marriage? A) Joe's refusal to allow Janie to attend the mule's funeral. B) Joe's decision to accept help from others but not from Janie. C) The fact that Janie and Joe now sleep in separate rooms. D) Janie's decision to stand up for herself and criticize Joe's "manhood" in public. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Janie's decision to stand up for herself and criticize Joe's "manhood" in public. 15. Where did Zora Neale Hurston move with her family early in her life? A) New Smyrna Beach, Florida. B) Eatonville, Florida. C) Daytona Beach, Florida. D) Trick question, she never left her birth state. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eatonville, Florida. 16. What is Black Folklore? A) French Folk Tales. B) African American Folk Tales. C) Spanish Folk Tales. D) German Folk Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) African American Folk Tales. 17. Janie is the protagonist of the novel. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. How did the townspeople treat the woman when she approached them? A) Empathetically. B) Kindly. C) Respectfully. D) Differently. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kindly. 19. Define the term "Cloak" A) Cover as if with clothing. B) Exacting especially about details. C) Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cover as if with clothing. 20. What was Janie insecure about when Tea Cake first started courting her? A) His financial means. B) Their age difference. C) The opinion of the town's people. D) She did not worry about anything. 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