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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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What is “the muck” where Janie and Tea Cake live?
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Why is the porch important?
What are the personal histories of Nanny, Janie’s grandmother, and of Janie’s mother?
Who were Janie’s three husbands?
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Why is Joe Starks a natural leader?
Why are people in Eatonville scandalized by the romance between Janie and Tea Cake?
How do Janie and Tea Cake support themselves while they are in the Everglades?
How does Janie interact with the women she meets in the Everglades?
Why does Janie kill Tea Cake?
After she returns to Eatonville, how does Janie let people know what has happened to her in her absence?
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What do the locals suspect has happened to Janie at the beginning of the novel?
She has abandoned her husband for a younger man.
She has grown weary of working and wants to retire.
Tea Cake has stolen her money and left her.
Tea Cake has been killed in the recent hurricane.
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What do the townspeople envy about Janie?
Her tall, noble figure
Her long, straight hair
Her quick, sharp wit
Her light, creamy skin
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How does Pheoby react to the locals' criticism of Janie?
She sticks up for her friend.
She joins in, but secretly envies Janie.
She pretends that she cannot hear them.
She storms off to tell her husband.
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Where did Janie live when she was a child?
In an abandoned plantation house
In the attic above the school
In the Washburns' backyard
In Logan Killicks's barn
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Who is Janie's father?
A schoolteacher who raped her mother
A slaveowner who raped her mother
A local merchant who abandoned her mother
A farmhand who her mother accidentally killed
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