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Zora Neale Hurston published four novels and over fifty short stories, as well as a number of plays and essays, and a collection of folktales (gathered in the 1920s) called "Every Tongue Got to Confess", which was published posthumously when the manuscript was found in the Smithsonian archives. She is best known for her 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
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  10 Questions about Their Eyes Were Watching God   great trivia quiz  
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This is a great book by Zora Neale Hurston.
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  Easy Their Eyes Were Watching God Quiz - 10 Questions    
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"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neal Hurston is a heart-warming book. Take this quiz to see how much you remember.
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  Their Eyes Were Watching God Test   popular trivia quiz  
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Let's see if you can get an A in this test. "Their Eyes were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston.
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trivia question Quick Question
What did Phoeby bring to Janie after the women talked behind her?

From Quiz "Their Eyes Were Watching God"




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Zora Neal Hurston Trivia Questions
1. When Janie was walking back to Eatonville at the beginning of the story, how do the men think of her?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: she's hot

Janie's wearing her overalls. The women don't like her.

2. Where was Janie arriving in the beginning of the book?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Eatonville

The beginning of the story is really what happens in the end. Janie was coming back to Eatonville, a town she ran away from with her third husband Tea Cake. Eatonville was an all black town; she and her late husband, Joe Starks, helped establish it. As she walked in, she faced the scorn of the neighbors she once lived with. Everyone talked about her running away with a younger man who they thought stole all her money.

3. Who did Janie grow up living with?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: her grandmother

Janie's mother was never mentally stable enough to support Janie so her grandmother took care of her.

4. What did Phoeby bring to Janie after the women talked behind her?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: rice

Phoeby stands up for Janie after the women's chat. Then she brings rice to Janie's old house.

5. Who was Janie's first husband?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Logan Killicks

Janie got married when she was only sixteen because her grandmother wanted her to have protection when she died. Logan Killicks had money and was able to protect Janie, but he was old and not what Janie wanted. So eventually she walked off of the farm and left with her soon-to-be second husband, Joe Starks.

6. What did Janie love to sit under?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: The pear tree

Janie would sit under the pear tree when it was nice outside and long for a guy to call her own.

7. Janie's ancestors included whom?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: slave, Caucasian, slave owner

Nanny is a slave who was raped by her owner. Leafy was Nanny's daughter and she was raped by a Caucasian teacher.

8. Janie described her first husband as, "...some ole ______ in de grave yard."

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: skullhead

Logan Killicks was well older than Janie, and she was repulsed by him. He was ugly, smelly, fat, and had gross feet. This wasn't someone she wanted to marry. Eventually it wasn't only his looks, he wasn't treating her the way he used to. He didn't pamper to her anymore, and he made her do chores.

9. Who was Janie's first husband?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Logan Killicks & Logan

Janie's grandmother forced Janie to marry Logan because he was older and he would be able to support her.

10. What doesn't Janie like about Logan?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: stinky feet

She thinks they're ugly and dirty. Janie commented that Logan didn't wash them before he went to the bed.

11. The store Janie worked in had two purposes, one being it was a general store. What was the other purpose?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: post office

When Janie and Joe Starks helped put together Eatonville, Starks became the mayor. He created a general store and post office, and had Janie work in it. She didn't like it much, and when all the fun was happening out on the porch, she wasn't allowed to comment.

12. Who did Janie leave Logan for?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Joe Starks

Janie was outside one day and Joe passed by and the two instantly fell in love.

13. What are Janie's last names?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Crawford, Killicks, Starks, Woods

Her last name is Crawford; then she married Logan Killicks, Joe Starks and Vergible Woods (Tea Cake).

14. What nickname did Janie give her second husband?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Jody

Joe Starks liked it when Janie called him Jody, so that is what she frequently addressed him as.

15. Jody complained that Janie mislaid something. What?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: mail

Janie was blamed because of that.

16. What did the people of the town always make fun of Matt Bonner for?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: His mule

People would gather around on the general store porch and have a good time talking, telling stories, and playing checkers. They constantly made fun of Matt's yellow mule, saying he was going to blow away in the wind he was so thin. Eventually Joe Starks bought him from Matt because he wasn't being taken care of.

17. What did Joe make Janie wear that upset her?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: head rag

Janie had the most beautiful, long hair and all the men admired it. Joe got jealous and made her hide her hair.

18. Complete the quote. Tea Cake and Janie met, and he challenged her to a game of checkers. He said she looked hard to beat, and Janie responded by saying, "Ah is, 'cause ___________."

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Ah can't play uh lick.

Janie was never allowed to play checkers before, because Joe Starks didn't really see her for her mind. She was more of a trophy wife to him, and he wouldn't let her speak or join any of the conversations. So Tea Cake helped her learn to play checkers, and he let her experience so many things she had never done before.

19. How did Joe die?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: kidney failure

Joe became very ill with kidney failure and during his illness, he never wanted to see Janie because he thought she was cursing him.

20. What did Tea Cake do in the plantation?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: pick beans

He claims he can make money doing that.

21. How did Tea Cake save Janie during the hurricane?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: He saved her from a dog.

Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay in their house despite the fact that there was a hurricane warning. After they realized it was too dangerous, they had to make it to Palm Beach through all the water and rain. Janie grabbed onto a cow's tail, and a dog that was perched on top of the creature was rabid and tried to attack her. Tea Cake killed the dog, saving Janie.

22. Who was Janie's third husband?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Tea Cake

Tea Cake was Janie's true love and he treated her like a person. She was finally happy with Tea Cake.

23. What did Janie bake for Tea Cake everyday? (Tea Cake didn't get bored eating it)

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: beans

Tea Cake just enjoys the baked beans after work.

24. How was Tea Cake forced to help after the hurricane?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: He had to bury bodies.

Tea Cake went out of the house to see what was going on, and he was quickly recruited by two white men. Tea Cake was forced to help bury the bodies, the white ones getting coffins, the black ones just thrown into the hole. He eventually escaped, got back to Janie, and then together they went back to their old house in the Everglades.

25. How did Tea Cake die?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: Janie shot him

During the hurricane, a rabid dog bit Tea Cake and he contracted rabies. Tea Cake was acting so horrible that Janie knew that the right thing was just to put him out of his misery.

26. At the end of the book, how does Janie feel?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: peaceful

She just wants to live peacefully until she dies.

27. What did Janie find under Tea Cake's pillow that eventually led to his death?

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: gun

While Janie was fixing Tea Cake's pillow, she found a gun hidden under it. As he went outside to use the bathroom, she took three bullets out of it quickly. When Tea Cake had one of his rabid attacks from being bit by a dog, he tried shooting at Janie. She heard three empty clicks, and new the next one was going to kill her. Right before he shot the fourth one, she shot Tea Cake with a rifle.

28. In the opening paragraphs of the book, Hurston describes the difference between men and ________.

From Quiz Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer: women

Zora Neil Hurston describes ships out at sea and how men and women deal with these ships.

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