This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > Their Eyes Were Watching God > Their Eyes Were Watching God – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What happened after Annie's daughter came for her? A) She regained her health. B) She died in peace. C) She suffered then died. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She died in peace. 2. What was the reason for Joe's second party in Chapter 5? A) He and Janie never had a proper wedding reception. B) He said all mayors were supposed to have a coronation. C) He bought the town's first street lamp. D) He read the Emancipation Proclamation to the newly freed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He bought the town's first street lamp. 3. At the trial, Janie is ..... A) Condemned by Tea Cake's friends. B) Convicted of murder. C) Convicted of assault. D) Not allowed to speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Condemned by Tea Cake's friends. 4. What is the subject of most of the jokes told on the porch? A) Women. B) Joe's clothes. C) Janie's hair. D) Matt Bonner's mule. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Matt Bonner's mule. 5. Where does Janie bury Tea Cake? A) Palm Beach. B) Jacksonville. C) The Glades. D) Eatonville. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Palm Beach. 6. Where did Joe sleep? A) Upstairs. B) Downstairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Downstairs. 7. Janie's best friend from Eatonville. A) Mrs. Turner. B) Nanny. C) Nunkie. D) Pheoby. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pheoby. 8. What does Logan want Janie to do in chapter 4? A) Cook and clean all day. B) Plow with a mule. C) Be a mother. D) Find a job. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plow with a mule. 9. What terms does Logan Killicks use to describe Janie A) Sweet. B) Understanding. C) Languid. D) Spoiled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spoiled. 10. Where does Joe Starks (also known as Jody) take Janie after they leave her husband and the house in the woods? A) "the muck" way down south in Florida. B) Eatonville, FL. C) At-fanta, ga. D) Jackson, MS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eatonville, FL. 11. Why does Nanny want Janie to get married right away at 16? A) She caught Janie kissing a boy. B) Nanny says that Janie is too smelly to live with anymore. C) Janie is pregnant. D) She can't afford to take care of Janie anymore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She caught Janie kissing a boy. 12. Where was Zora Neale Hurston born? A) Florida. B) Georgia. C) New York. D) Alabama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alabama. 13. At the end of the novel, it looks as though Janie is going to live where? A) On Logan's farm. B) In Eatonville. C) In the Everglades. D) In Nanny's old house. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In Eatonville. 14. How old was was Janie when she realized she was not white? A) 13. B) 8. C) 10. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6. 15. Janie felt happy after the death of the mule A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. What was the name of the town Janie and Joe moved to? A) Eatonville. B) Eatonville. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eatonville. 17. Nanny says, "the black woman is the ..... of the world." A) Mule. B) Preacher. C) Teacher. D) Royalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mule. 18. What does Joe make Janie do with her hair? A) Color it. B) Nothing. C) Cut it. D) Tie it up. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tie it up. 19. What does Janie let Tea Cake do that none of the other men have been able to do? A) Buy her a soda. B) Borrow some money. C) Come up on her porch. D) Take her to dinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Come up on her porch. 20. The town began to notice Tea Cake and Janie's relationship A) After the picnic. B) Right before the picnic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) After the picnic. 21. Name the literary device being used in the following line: "The sun had gone, but had left his footprints in the sky." A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 22. The character Janie suspected of having an affair with her husband. A) Leafy. B) Nunkie. C) Pheoby. D) Mrs. Turner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nunkie. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. 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. 26. 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. 27. 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. 28. Joe spoke about his plans for the town repeatedly A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. 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. 30. 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. 31. What is Black Folklore? A) German Folk Tales. B) French Folk Tales. C) African American Folk Tales. D) Spanish Folk Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) African American Folk Tales. 32. Janie is the protagonist of the novel. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. 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. 34. 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. 35. What was Janie insecure about when Tea Cake first started courting her? A) Their age difference. B) She did not worry about anything. C) The opinion of the town's people. D) His financial means. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their age difference. 36. Where did Janie and Logan get married? A) In a church. B) In Logan's house. C) In Nanny's parlor. D) In a garden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In Nanny's parlor. 37. ..... going to be late for school if they don't eat their breakfast faster. A) There. B) Their. C) They're. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They're. 38. What is the town's favorite subject of gossip and joking around? A) Janie's hair. B) Jody's money. C) Matt Bonner's mule. D) Sam's alligator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matt Bonner's mule. 39. Why did Joe begin to berate Janie about her age? A) Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because he was projecting his insecure feelings about his age onto her. B) Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because he liked to keep the honesty in their marriage. C) Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because she was becoming to "mouthy" with him. D) Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because he wanted a younger woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jody decided to berate Janie about her age because he was projecting his insecure feelings about his age onto her. 40. What did Tea Cake spend Janie's money that he stole on? A) Dinner. B) A party. C) A new dress for Janie. D) A guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A party. 41. What does Janie tell Pheoby she wants to get married again for? A) Fame. B) Safety. C) Money. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love. 42. Janie worked in the store everyday except A) Saturday. B) Sunday. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sunday. 43. The relationship between Janie and Phoeby is A) Cousins. B) Best friends. C) They don't know each other. D) Enemies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Best friends. 44. What are the signs that bad weather is coming? A) The air is still. B) The animals begin to flee. C) The Indians migrate to higher ground. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 45. The vocab word that means to express or feel contempt or ill-will. A) Scorn. B) Wallow. C) Saunter. D) Distended. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scorn. 46. What does the following quote say about Janie's attitude? "Dis ain't no business proposition, and no race after property and titles. Dis is uh love game. Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah means tuh live mine." A) It said nothing about her. B) She appreciates Nanny's influence on her. C) She wants to go back to Logan. D) She is her own woman now. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She is her own woman now. 47. According to Janie, what did marriage mean? A) Loneliness and destruction. B) Love and companionship. C) Moldy and destructive. D) Loneliness and moldiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love and companionship. 48. What did the women use the mule for A) To carry water. B) As a washing board. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As a washing board. 49. Why did Hicks become uncomfortable A) He was attracted to Janie. B) He was envious of Joe. C) He was attracted to Janie, envious of Joe and did not want a change to Eatonville. D) He did not want Eatonville to change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was attracted to Janie, envious of Joe and did not want a change to Eatonville. 50. True or false:Janie thought she would grow to love her husband because husbands and wives always loved each other. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 51. The writer is a Harlem Renaissance writer. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 52. There was a great clap of laughter is an example of A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 53. Why are the Native Americans (the Seminole) leaving the Everglades at the beginning of Ch 18? A) They are being forced off their lands. B) They don't get along with the African Americans. C) They know the hurricane is coming. D) They are seeking work elsewhere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They know the hurricane is coming. 54. Ready and able to resort to force or violence A) Pugnacious. B) Reconcile. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pugnacious. 55. Who was Janie raised by? A) Her mother, Leafy. B) Nanny. C) The Washburns. D) The plantation owner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nanny. 56. When the protagonist returns home, she/he is wearing ..... A) An evening gown. B) An old tattered suit. C) Old overalls. D) Shorts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Old overalls. 57. Why does Janie trust Tea Cake enough to let him help her shut up the store and walk home? A) He convinces her that he is a "good fella.". B) She knows Joe would have approved of Tea Cake helping her. C) She thinks she needs to keep an eye on him. D) She feels as if she has known him her whole life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She feels as if she has known him her whole life. 58. The flock of crows had to wait on the parson to begin consuming the dead animal. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 59. What is her situation at the beginning of the novel? A) She is returning home after being gone for a long time. B) She has just had a baby. C) She is returning from being a nurse in the war. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is returning home after being gone for a long time. 60. What does Matt Bonner do when he gets mad? A) Stutters. B) Punches a wall. C) Curses. 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