This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > Their Eyes Were Watching God > Their Eyes Were Watching God – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The lit term that refers to a physical object representing an abstract idea. A) Theme. B) Symbolism. C) Irony. D) Literary lens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 2. After the halftime rain, the football players found it hard to run on the ..... field. A) Sod. B) Sanctum. C) Malice. D) Languid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sod. 3. What does Janie learn to do in Chapter 10? A) Ride a horse. B) Drive a car. C) Play checkers. D) Braid her hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Play checkers. 4. How did Joe's position affect Janie's relationship with other town residents? A) She became a role model for all the young girls. B) She became "the belle of the ball' and was invited to all of the social functions. C) She couldn't get close to most of them. They felt jealous and awestruck. D) Her popularity helped Joe attract customers to the store and remain as mayor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She couldn't get close to most of them. They felt jealous and awestruck. 5. The lit term that refers to making a comparison between two things that are typically dissimilar. A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Theme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. Who is Janie's best female friend? A) Mrs. Turner. B) Phoebe. C) Tea Cake. D) Nanny. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phoebe. 7. What disease does the doctor diagnose Tea Cake with? A) Influenza. B) Dysentery. C) Rabies. D) Smallpox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rabies. 8. The lit term that refers to attributing human qualities to something that is not human. A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. Who is the main character's first husband? A) Logan. B) Janie. C) Joe. D) Pheoby. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logan. 10. How would you describe Nunkie's built A) Plump. B) Slender. C) Skinny. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plump. 11. The racist character who wants to set Janie up with her brother. A) Nunkie. B) Pheoby. C) Mrs. Turner. D) Leafy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mrs. Turner. 12. What is a split narrative? A) Story with multiple authors. B) An omniscient narrator in one part of the story and a first person narrative in another part of the story. C) When a person tells their own story. D) A story told in first person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An omniscient narrator in one part of the story and a first person narrative in another part of the story. 13. How does Tea Cake get hurt during the hurricane? A) While jumping over storm debris, Tea Cake twists his ankle. B) While pulling Janie onto an island, Tea is bitten by a rattlesnake. C) While leading Janie through the hurricane, Tea Cake is hit by flying metal. D) While saving Janie from an angry dog, Tea Cake is bitten by the dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) While saving Janie from an angry dog, Tea Cake is bitten by the dog. 14. In Chapter 1 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, the women of Eatonville gossip about Janie because ..... A) She gets pregnant before getting married. B) She has returned to town after running off with a younger man. C) She is cheating on her husband, Joe Starks. D) She has gone bankrupt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She has returned to town after running off with a younger man. 15. A metaphor is a figure of speech that ..... A) Gives a nonhuman thing human traits. B) Uses the words "like" or "as" but doesn't compare things. C) Uses a word that sounds like what it means. D) Compares things without using the words "like" or "as". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compares things without using the words "like" or "as". 16. Why did the residents not witness Janie leave? A) She left in the night. B) She left very early. C) She wore a disguise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She left very early. 17. IN THE BOOK WHAT COLOR DRESS DID JANIE LEAVE WEARING? A) Orange. B) Black. C) Blue. D) Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blue. 18. I am singing Taylor Swift, while ..... plugging their ears. A) There. B) Their. C) They're. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They're. 19. The lit term that is a comparison using like or as. A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 20. What did Janie wear when she returned? A) Pants. B) Overalls. C) Working clothes. D) Torn Dress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overalls. 21. Which theme is NOT explored in the first five chapters of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" ? A) The impact of gender on personal freedom. B) The search for self-identity. C) The influence of community on individual choices. D) The role of technology in society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The role of technology in society. 22. What kind of storm hit the Everglades? A) To tornado. B) A hurricane. C) Snow storm. D) Ah tsunami. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A hurricane. 23. At 16, laying underneath the pear tree, Janie thought about A) Romantic love and marriage. B) Moving away from her home town. C) Opening up a business and making a name for herself. D) Finding her mother one day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romantic love and marriage. 24. According to the introduction of the novel, what do ships at a distance have on board? A) Every man's wish. B) Cargo for survival. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Every man's wish. 25. Which comma rule is being used here? "That might have been the Janie y'all knew, but that wasn't the Janie I ever was." A) Before a conjuction (FANBOY) to combine 2 sentences. B) After an introduction. C) Around extra information. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Before a conjuction (FANBOY) to combine 2 sentences. 26. Disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as thought A) Drawl. B) Delusion. C) Frothing. D) Cosmic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delusion. 27. After they get caught in the storm, what is Janie's response to Tea Cake? A) She cries. B) She is thankful that she is with him. C) She wishes she had never married him. D) She curses him out. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is thankful that she is with him. 28. How is Janie's employee Hezekiah acting around the store? A) He is disobedient and rude to Janie. B) He tells Janie he wants to marry her. C) He imitates Joe all the time. D) He is shy and obedient to Janie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He imitates Joe all the time. 29. Joe noticed the scant dozen of shame-faced houses. What device is this? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 30. Why does Tea Cake want to stay on the muck? A) He does not like moving around. B) He does not want to leave Janie. C) He is not afraid of hurricanes. D) He does not want to lose a day of work. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He does not want to lose a day of work. 31. Setting Description:Can you explain why the rural Southern setting in the first chapter is important? A) To show off new technology and modern conveniences. B) To highlight the main character's disconnection from her roots and community. C) To display the busy city life of the Southern setting. D) To set up the cultural and historical background of the story, and to emphasize the main character's bond with her roots and the community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To set up the cultural and historical background of the story, and to emphasize the main character's bond with her roots and the community. 32. Why did Janie go to see Nanny? A) To talk about Logan. B) To get information about marriage. C) To get beaten biscuits. D) To get advice on love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To talk about Logan. 33. What was Joe's response to Janie after the infamous conversation in Chapter 7? A) Joe could not find the words to respond back to her insult so he gave her the silent treatment. B) Joe could not find the words to respond back to her insult, so he hit her. C) Joe could not find the words to respond back to her insult so he sat silently and he wept. D) Joe could not find the words to respond back to her insult so he left Janie for a more respectful woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joe could not find the words to respond back to her insult, so he hit her. 34. Lacking energy or vitality; Weak A) Lacerating. B) Resignation. C) Languid. D) Expound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Languid. 35. Tea Cake intended to ..... Janie as soon as she came off the train A) Bring Janie shopping. B) Bring her to the movies. C) Marry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marry. 36. What does the following quote show about Tea Cake? "Ah no need no assistance tuh help me feed mah woman. From now on, you gointuh eat whutever mah money can buy yuh and wear de same. Whe Ah ain't got nothin' you don't git nothin'." A) He is lonely. B) He is careless. C) He is prideful. D) He is hateful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is prideful. 37. "I was a proper married woman, but I was still waiting for love to begin." Which comma rule tells you to keep the comma? 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: A) Before a conjunction (FANBOY) to combine 2 sentences. 38. Stop performing an action A) Oblige. B) Desist. C) Languid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desist. 39. Provide the last name of the writer of the novel:THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD. A) Tobler. B) Hurston. C) Rowles. D) Trump. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hurston. 40. At the end of the novel, Janie feels A) Extreme anger. B) At peace. C) Shame and regret. D) Hyper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At peace. 41. The lit term that refers to experiencing the opposite of what one expects. A) Dialect. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 42. What was Eatonville like when Joe and Janie arrived? A) A big, busy city. B) Just flat farmland. C) A small, slow, developing town. D) An upper-class neighborhood full of trees and big houses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A small, slow, developing town. 43. The vocab word that means to indulge in an unrestrained way. A) Wallow. B) Scorn. C) Saunter. D) Expound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wallow. 44. Why did Joe become upset at the end of the chapter? A) Because Janie spoke. B) Because Janie was unhappy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because Janie spoke. 45. How does Jody express his kindness towards Janie? A) By sparing Matt Bonner's mule. B) By taking her on lavish vacations. C) By defending her in front of others. D) By buying her expensive gifts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By sparing Matt Bonner's mule. 46. When the men in town say that Mrs. Robbins is a disgrace to her husband, what does Janie say? A) She agrees. B) Nothing, because she's afraid to speak up. C) The men don't understand women as well as they think they do. D) Mr. Robbins is a bad husband, so he deserves it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The men don't understand women as well as they think they do. 47. What year was the author of the story born? A) 1891. B) 1801. C) 1981. D) 1933. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1891. 48. Janie feared that Tea Cake A) Was hurt somewhere. B) At a party without her. C) Ahd gone back to Eatonville. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was hurt somewhere. 49. Make into a whole or make part of a whole A) Fractious. B) Pugnacious. C) Incorporate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incorporate. 50. The vocab word that means swollen or bloated A) Boisterous. B) Immensity. C) Distended. D) Profusely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Distended. 51. Did Tea Cake cheat on Janie with Nunkie? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 52. Why does Joe hit Janie? A) He doesn't slap her. B) She is going to get married to someone else. C) She isn't dressed properly. D) She messed up dinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She messed up dinner. 53. Janie's role in Eatonville is established when Jody makes her do what? A) Clean houses. B) Farm crops. C) Run his store. D) Sort everyone's mail. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Run his store. 54. When Janie and Tea Cake go "on the muck, " where are they? A) Tennessee. B) The Everglades. C) Eatonville. D) On the Mississippi river. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Everglades. 55. Nanny arranges Janie's marriage to Logan after she catches Janie ..... A) Stealing candy. B) Skipping school. C) Kissing a boy. D) Kissing Logan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kissing a boy. 56. How does Janie feel at Joe's funeral? A) Grateful to him for leaving her so much. B) Stressed out because she doesn't know what to do next. C) Sad. D) Liberated/free. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Liberated/free. 57. Setting Description:Can you explain how the setting influences the mood and atmosphere in the first chapter? A) The setting is barren and devoid of life, creating a sense of emptiness and desolation. B) The setting is disordered and chaotic, leading to feelings of confusion and disarray. C) The rich and vibrant natural environment creates a sense of beauty, peace, and balance. D) The setting is dark and gloomy, inducing feelings of fear and discomfort. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rich and vibrant natural environment creates a sense of beauty, peace, and balance. 58. Why do the men make fun of the mule? A) He's too skinny. B) He smells. C) He's too fat. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He's too skinny. 59. Define Obscurity A) Unknown or unimportant. B) Criminal. C) Materials. D) Temporary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unknown or unimportant. 60. Who is Janie's best friend in Eatonville? A) Phoebe. B) Sam. 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