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Meaning: "Let 'em say whut dey wants tuh, Phoeby. To my thinkin' mourning ought'n't tuh last no longer'n grief" (Hurston 93).

• Janie thinks people should only wear black mourning clothes for 3 months.

• Janie believes that Phoebe is pressuring her to remain a widow.

• Janie believes that your outside dress should represent your inner feelings and not be ted to societal expectations. Ex: Black when mourning.

• Janie believes people should wear whatever they want depending on how they feel.

Meaning: Tea Cake states, "You'se got de world in uh jug and make out you don't know it. But Ah'm glad tuh be de one tuh tell yuh" (Hurston 104). (Choose all applicable answers)

• Tea Cake thinks Janie is curvaceous.

• Tea Cake believes that Janie is a queen and should be respected and honored.

• Tea Cake loves sharing his perspective of the world with Janie

• Tea Cake constantly seeks to empower Janie to believe in herself and her own abilities.

Meaning: "You done hurt mah heart, now you come wid uh lie tuh bruise mah ears! Turn go mah hands! (Hurston 137)."

• You've literally wounded me.

• Is it not enough that you figuratively hurt me, but now you're insulting me.

• He boxed her ears.

• She needs a doctor immediately.

Meaning: "No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep" (Hurston 184).

• Allow yourself to have an emotional response whenever necessary.

• Everything will eventually pass on.

• Grief may feel like it will last forever, but it will subside.

• Loss stops time.

Who is the protagonist in the novel?

• Phoeby

• Janie

• Jodie/Joe

• Tea Cake

When the novel begins our protagonist is

• A young girl living with her grandmother

• About to marry Logan Killicks

• Arriving in Eatonville with her new husband for the first time

• A middle-aged woman returning to Eatonville alone

To whom does Janie tell the story of her life?

• The townspeople on the porch

• Her new husband Tea Cake

• Phoeby Watson

• Nobody

Who does Janie’s grandmother talk her into marrying?

• Vergible Woods

• Logan Killicks

• Jody Starks

• Amos Hicks

Why does Janie leave her first husband?

• To go to the Everglades with Tea Cake

• To marry Jody Starks and go to Eatonville

• To care for her ailing grandmother

• To search for her missing mother

What reason does Jody give for excluding Janie from the Mule’s funeral?

• Because such a “common” gathering is unfit for a wife of someone so important

• Because he is afraid she is too weak to handle the sight of the dead mule

• Because she had said she didn’t want to go

• Because he feels she should be working at the store