Their Eyes Were Watching God Test

Question 1

Pear tree

Answer 1

Metaphor for sex/sexual awakening (bees, flowers blooming)

Question 2

Johnny Taylor

Answer 2

The personification of her sexual awakening (goes from nothing special to an object of desire)

Question 3

Safety first

Answer 3

Nanny wants her to have a good, stable husband to take care of her and give her an easy, comfortablel life (saftely before love, Nanny prioritizes Janie’s protection before her desire to marry for love) SAFETY FIRST

Question 4

Logan Killicks

Answer 4

Metaphor for the manure pile (“shit field”) because that’s what he wants Janie to tote, nanny says well tough luck, logan is like @janie u do what i tell u to do, nanny is like i dont know what you are talking about u have safety that is what matters

Question 5

Mule of the world

Answer 5

Black women are the mules of the world, below everyone else in the world (white men > black men > black women), has a horrible life (black men) and then come home and take it out on their wives

Question 6

Rapes

Answer 6

The two generations of rape in Janie’s family (Nanny was raped by the white plantation owner and Janie’s mother was raped by her white schoolteacher)

Question 7

Jody’s dream

Answer 7

Go to Eatonville, put it on the map

Question 8

Post office

Answer 8

Makes Eatonville an official town

Question 9

Street lamp

Answer 9

Indication of what Jody wants to turn Eatonville into

Question 10

Mule’s funeral

Answer 10

Janie isn’t allowed to go to the funeral because it is bellow her (according to Jody), Janie could not go because jody would’nt let her; shows how Jody wants control

Question 11

Speech-making

Answer 11

people want Janie to make a speech, but Jody says she doesn’t know anything about speech making

Question 12

The porch

Answer 12

The setting for the oral culture (like hallway, cafeteria, locker rooms, TEXTING, Twitter, etc.), center of town, central meeting spot, Janie not allowed to participate in conversations (classed off), how much is lost because of texting & more modern communication?, comparatively, what can be gained from this new communication?

Question 13

Change of life

Answer 13

Shows up Jody in front of a lot of people at the store (Jody = male menopausal woman), VERY HARSH

Question 14

Listen to me one time before you die

Answer 14

Unloading it all, ultimate closure between her and Jody (both cruel and necessary)

Question 15

Kerchief

Answer 15

Janie lets her hair down, metaphor for her freedom, and tight kerchief hair was a metaphor for her life with Jody, no longer in Jody’s control, jody wants Janie under his thumb, catharsis

Question 16

“Starch and iron” face

Answer 16

Janie’s face at Jody’s funeral

Question 17

Checkers

Answer 17

Tea Cake teaches her how to play checkers, treats her as an equal (no longer classed off), girls at wash u wnated to play sports like (called title 9) like janie wanted to play checkers, girls didnt go out in the muck just stayed and watched the store

Question 18

“Janie, everybody’s talking”

Answer 18

About Janie and Tea Cake (he’s young, below her class, not good enough for her according to people in Eatonville), she shouldn’t be with tea cake because he is a gold digger and young but Janie does not hear a word they’re saying

Question 19

Nunkie

Answer 19

Shows Janie cares for Tea Cake and doesn’t want him to be with anyone else, girls who likes tea cake and janie is like i do not trust her, she roughed him up a little bit

Question 20

$200

Answer 20

Tea Cake took her money and threw a party, Janie doesn’t want Tea Cake to go out and have fun without her, Tea Cake wins back the money he lost gambling, janie does not tell tea cake about this but he finds it and throws a party, and she is not upset about money she is upset that she wasnt inviited to it - boxed off again

Question 21

The muck

Answer 21

Janie finally gets to be a part of things, not seen as being too good for anything (Garden of Eden?), ms alexander went to a muck sketchy school and now she is teaching at friends and it is like she is teaching on a porch now - from muck to porch - rags to riches - opposite of Janie, she wants to be in the muck because to get an experience, no longer has Jody classing her off

Question 22

House slaves vs. field slaves

Answer 22

House slaves had food and shelter, field slaves were more often beaten and worked harder, house slaves are lighter (ms turner bc she was racist vs dark skinned bc she was light skinned) and the field slaves are darker

Question 23

Mrs. Turner

Answer 23

Worshiped lightness of skin, lighter skin = more power, Janie was lighter skinned than Mrs. Turner, tries to tempt Janie into being with her brother instead of Tea Cake (the snake and Eve in Eden), Mrs. Turner = the snake, that broke up adam and eve

Question 24

“Barbie doll that never gets opened”

Answer 24

Metaphor for Janie in the store, not allowed to be a part of the action, only there for her looks

Question 25

Biblical illusion

Answer 25

Noah and the Ark, the flood, bean field (tea cake and Janie) in garden of eden, Mrs Turner is the serpent

Question 26

Jim Crow burials

Answer 26

White people in coffins, black people just thrown in the ground, white people

Question 27

Folk

Answer 27

Black characters are always referred to as “black FOLK” and white characters are always referred to as “white PEOPLE”