This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > Their Eyes Were Watching God > Their Eyes Were Watching God – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why does Janie run away with Joe Starks? A) Because Logan dies. B) Because Joe blackmails her. C) Because Joe is handsome and makes her feel special. D) Because Joe kidnaps her from Logan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because Joe is handsome and makes her feel special. 2. To make one's way by pushing or shoving A) Commissariat. B) Fractious. C) Jostle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jostle. 3. What does Mrs. Tony Robbins want from Jody when she comes to the store? A) A new dress. B) A cut of meat. C) Soda and candy. D) A loan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A cut of meat. 4. Which of the following is true of Joe's illness? A) He has been poisoned. B) His kidneys are shutting down. C) He has a broken heart. D) He drinks too much. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His kidneys are shutting down. 5. What kind of work do Janie and Tea Cake do once they are in the Everglades? A) They farm beans. B) They sell old items and antiques. C) They open a general store. D) They gamble. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They farm beans. 6. What is Janie's most noticeable physical characteristic? A) Her long, beautiful hair. B) Her lovely eyes. C) Her tall height. D) Her strong hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her long, beautiful hair. 7. How do the townspeople react to the scene between Jody and Janie in the store? A) They are embarrassed. B) They encourage Joe to beat Janie. C) They lose respect for Joe. D) They all leave the store. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They lose respect for Joe. 8. How did Janie travel to Jacksonville? A) By bus. B) By plane. C) By train. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By train. 9. The figure of speech "Janie starched and ironed her face" means ..... A) She had to get her face together to look like she was in mourning. B) She had to go out and get some plastic surgery so she wouldn't look so old. C) Exactly what it says, she starched and ironed her face like clothes. D) She had to put makeup on her face to look good for her husband's funeral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She had to get her face together to look like she was in mourning. 10. The vocab word that means to a great degree, in large amounts. A) Transfiguration. B) Profusely. C) Wallow. D) Boisterous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Profusely. 11. The porch sitters gossiping about Janie represent in the beginning of the novel represent ..... A) Everyday people. B) Concern. C) Her neighbors. D) Judgment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Judgment. 12. What is the name of Janie's second husband? A) Tea Cake. B) Sam Watson. C) Joe Starks. D) Logan Killicks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joe Starks. 13. How did Janie feel about working in the store? A) She hated it. B) She enjoyed it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She hated it. 14. In Chapter 1, when Janie returned to Eatonville, the gossiping ladies were making fun of her for wearing: A) A blue satin dress. B) Crocs. C) Overalls. D) Yeezy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overalls. 15. What does Janie do in Eatonville? A) She sells cakes and pies from her home. B) She manages the store. C) She quilts with the other women. D) She is a nanny for a white family. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She manages the store. 16. Why was Janie hesitant when Tea Cake first started flirting with her? A) What everyone else in the town would think. B) His lack of money. C) Their age difference. D) She didn't have any worries at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their age difference. 17. Besides removing the head rags, what changes does Janie make in her daily life? A) She starts to wear pants. B) She now sits on the front porch and talks. C) She begins dating. D) None of these is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She now sits on the front porch and talks. 18. Who raised a granddaughter? A) Logan. B) Nanny. C) Janie. D) Phoeby. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nanny. 19. What is the main message of the story? A) How racist people are. B) How nice everyone is. C) How sweet everyone is. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How racist people are. 20. In an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner A) Amiss. B) Desist. C) Conceivable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amiss. 21. How does Janie hurt Logan? A) She tells him that she's going to leave him. B) She hits him in the head with a frying pan. C) She refuses to look at him. D) She won't help him on the farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She tells him that she's going to leave him. 22. Mrs. Turner's brother was a A) Carpenter. B) Mason. C) Doctor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carpenter. 23. A sacred place, especially a shrine, a temple or church A) Dilate. B) Malice. C) Sod. D) Sanctum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sanctum. 24. What did Janie do with Tea Cake the first day they met? A) They played checkers. B) They got married. C) They went dancing. D) They went fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They played checkers. 25. What did Janie know about the world? A) The words of the trees and the wind. B) The world is a stallion rolling in the blue pasture. C) God creates a new world every day. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 26. What are the first and second improvement Joe makes in Eatonville? A) The grocery store and the town stop sign. B) The town store and the street light. C) The mule farm and the buzzard zoo. D) The school and the funeral parlor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The town store and the street light. 27. Explain the significance of the character of Pheoby Watson in the novel. A) Pheoby Watson is the main antagonist in the novel. B) Pheoby Watson is a minor character with no significant role. C) Pheoby Watson serves as Janie's confidante and provides a frame narrative for the story. D) Pheoby Watson is actually Janie's long-lost sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pheoby Watson serves as Janie's confidante and provides a frame narrative for the story. 28. Saturated with liguid A) Sod. B) Dwindled. C) Drawl. D) Ceased. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sod. 29. Who is Janie telling her story to? A) Phoeby. B) Sam Watson. C) Annie. D) Mae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phoeby. 30. The vocab word that means to walk in a slow and relaxed manner. A) Saunter. B) Distended. C) Scorn. D) Expound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saunter. 31. How does Janie's view of love change from the beginning to the end of Chapter 5? A) She becomes more cynical and dismissive of love. B) She realizes that love must be earned, not freely given. C) She starts to believe that love is only found in marriage. D) She begins to question the conventional beliefs about love and marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She begins to question the conventional beliefs about love and marriage. 32. What subject did the author study at the university? A) Anthropology. B) Stenography. C) Zoology. D) Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthropology. 33. What was Janie's most noticeable physical characteristic? A) Her skin was a deep, rich ebony color. B) She was six feet tall. C) She had long, beautiful dark hair. D) She walked with a limp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She had long, beautiful dark hair. 34. Tea Cake ..... Mrs. Turner A) Detested. B) Disliked. C) Liked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Detested. 35. What was Janie's reaction when Joe said she couldn't make a speech? A) She felt cold; his remarks took the bloom off their marriage. B) She was emotionally crushed, especially after practicing it for two weeks. C) She found her nervousness difficult to deal with. D) She was glad, because she didn't want to make a speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She felt cold; his remarks took the bloom off their marriage. 36. How long did Joe rent the house for? A) 1 week. B) 1 month. C) 1 year. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1 month. 37. Able to be touched or perceptible by the senses A) Prostrate. B) Tangible. C) Amiss. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tangible. 38. "So Janie began to think of Death. Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West." What literary element is "Death" ? A) Anaphora. B) Oxymoron. C) Antithesis. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 39. Identify and explain the metaphor used in the first chapter of the literary piece. A) The wind was whispering secrets into his ear. B) The sun appeared like a golden coin in the sky. C) Every man's wish is on board of ships that are far away. D) Her eyes sparkled like diamonds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Every man's wish is on board of ships that are far away. 40. Where does Janie return to after Tea Cake dies? A) Georgia. B) The Everglades. C) Nanny's house in her hometown. D) Eatonville. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eatonville. 41. A lil boy rooster shows A) There is a age difference between Janie and Taec Cake. B) Tea cake is the head of the house. C) Tea Cake wakes her in the mornings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There is a age difference between Janie and Taec Cake. 42. In Chapter 6, what does Janie realize about her marriage to Joe? A) Janie realizes that her marriage to Joe is not as fulfilling as she had hoped, and she begins to feel trapped and unfulfilled. B) Janie realizes that her marriage to Joe is only getting better with time. C) Janie realizes that her marriage to Joe is the best decision she has ever made. D) Janie realizes that her marriage to Joe is perfect and fulfilling in every way. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Janie realizes that her marriage to Joe is not as fulfilling as she had hoped, and she begins to feel trapped and unfulfilled. 43. Berta will have dinner at ..... house tonight. A) There. B) Their. C) They're. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their. 44. Which US president freed the slaves? A) George Washington. B) Jimmy Carter. C) Abraham Lincoln. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abraham Lincoln. 45. Capable of being imagined A) Conceivable. B) Promontory. C) Mien. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceivable. 46. What is janie trying to find? A) Her love, but at the end love herself. B) Her mother. C) Her father. D) Her puppy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her love, but at the end love herself. 47. Do Janie and tea Cake survive the hurricane? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 48. The yellow mule was owned by A) Sam League. B) Matt Bonner. C) Matt Liege. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matt Bonner. 49. Which comma rule is being used here? "Take care of things, won't you, Hezekiah?" A) Before a conjunction (FANBOY) to combine 2 sentences. B) After an introduction. C) Around extra information. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Around extra information. 50. Nanny is this relation to Janie. A) Mother. B) Grandmother. C) Daughter. D) Sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grandmother. 51. Where did Janie find Tea Cake's gun A) In the store. B) Under a pillow. C) In the kitchen cabinet. D) By his guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Under a pillow. 52. We see that our natural resources in all areas of the world have ..... , and it is time for an international effort to do something about it. A) Dilated. B) Drawled. C) Resignation. D) Dwindled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dwindled. 53. True or False:African Americans were treated equally after the Civil War. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 54. According to Chapter 1, "women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget." What, then, is the truth? A) The Journey. B) The Dream. C) Love. D) Desire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Dream. 55. ..... favorite food is ice cream from Dairy Queen. A) There. B) Their. C) They're. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their. 56. Who do we learn is dead in Chapter 4? A) Phoeby. B) Logan. C) Nanny. D) Joe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nanny. 57. How were the white people buried after the storm? A) In coffins. B) In large community graves. C) Sent back to their families. D) With a funeral in a cemetery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In coffins. 58. Everyone was surprised to see the company president doing ..... labor he could easily pass on to one of his employees. A) Merciless. B) Prostrating. C) Refracted. D) Menial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Menial. 59. Over and over again, the novel references Janie's beautiful: A) Clothing. B) Eyebrows. C) Hair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hair. 60. What do the men who try to court Janie really want? A) Her money. B) Her store. C) Her body. D) Her wisdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her money. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAmerican Classics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesTheir Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 1Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 2Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 3Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 5Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 6Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 7Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 8Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books