Their Eyes Were Watching God Review

Read the passage from Chapter 5 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Janie soon began to feel the impact ..." and ends "everybody had their say” (pages 46-bottom to page-48-bottom of first paragraph) carefully before you choose your answers.

Question- It can be inferred from the first paragraph that Janie

• feels alienated from the townspeople

• regards the townspeople disdainfully

• mediates between Starks and the community

• holds herself to a new standard of responsibility

• takes advantage of her position

Read the passage from Chapter 5 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Janie soon began to feel the impact ..." and ends "everybody had their say” (pages 46-bottom to page-48-bottom of first paragraph) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: In the second paragraph, the phrase "bow-down” serves to suggest both

• Janie's respect for her husband and her growing distance from him

• Starks's status in the black community and his lack of it in the white community

• the history of black people as slaves and as independent citizens

• male dominance in the social hierarchy and women's criticism of it (

• Starks's own attitude and the way the townspeople view him

Read the passage from Chapter 6 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Ah know uh few things” and ends "a bow to the outside of things” (pages 71-72) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q:In the third paragraph (beginning “Times and scenes”), Janie's thoughts about her

marriage serve to indicate her

• desire for revenge against her husband

• view of herself as inferior to Joe

• inability to overlook her husband's faults

• wish for independence from Joe

• resentment of Joe' belittlement

Read the passage from Chapter 6 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Ah know uh few things” and ends "a bow to the outside of things” (pages 71-72) carefully before you choose your answers.

In context, the phrase "petal-open” in the fifth paragraph suggests

• freshness and vitality

• tenderness and vulnerability

• youth and beauty

• flattery and praise

• fragility and transience

Passage Read the passage from Chapter 8 which begins “She cried often in the weeks ..." and ends “like some helpless thing seeking shelter” (pages 83-3rd paragraph to 85-top) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: Which of the following is true of the townspeople's attitude toward Janie throughout the passage?

• It changes from pity to satisfaction.

• It alternates between indifference and disdain

• It becomes less hostile

• It shifts from respect to suspicion

• It transforms into mockery.

Read the passage from Chapter 9 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Janie found out very soon” and ends at the end of the chapter (page 90-2nd paragraph to page-93) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: With respect to the other would-be suitors, Ike Green most likely represents a man who...

• has more to offer financially

• is more sincerely concerned for Janie

• is hypocritical

• is typical of the group

• has known Janie longer

Read the passage from Chapter 9 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins “Janie found out very soon” and ends at the end of the chapter (page 90-2nd paragraph to page-93) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: Janie's attitude toward Hezekiah's imitation of Joe could best be described as one of

• derision

• indulgence

• annoyance

• glee

• indifference

Read the passage from Chapter 13 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins at the beginning of the chapter and ends "she worried time like a bone" (pages 111-113) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: In the first paragraph, the two sentences which begins "No need for Janie" and end "right from the train" represent...

• Janie's hopes for her future

• the narrator's hints about what is to come

• the content of Tea Cake's letter to Janie

• Janie's sense of what others expected of her

• an objective record of what occured

Read the passage from Chapter 13 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins at the beginning of the chapter and ends "she worried time like a bone" (pages 111-113) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: In the third paragraph, the train is described primarily by means of...

• similie

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• repetition

Read the passage from Chapter 13 of Their Eyes Were Watching God which begins at the beginning of the chapter and ends "she worried time like a bone" (pages 111-113) carefully before you choose your answers.

Q: By describing Pheoby's advice to Janie in the fourth paragraph, the narrator primarily

• illustrates Janie's gullibility regarding Tea Cake

• emphasizes Pheoby's practical perspective

• implies Janie's level of desperation

• suggests a conspiracy against Tea Cake

• reveals Pheoby's scheming disposition