Q 01/05

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, sixteen-year-old Janie has her awakening lying beneath which blossoming tree?

A) Peach

B) Pear

C) Magnolia

D) Orange

Answer · why

B) Pear

Pear blossom holds Janie in Nanny's back yard for three spring days as bees sink into the blooms. She decides the sight is what a marriage should be, ...

Q 02/05

Rescuing Janie from the flood in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tea Cake is bitten on the cheek by what animal?

A) A snake

B) A gator

C) A bobcat

D) A dog

Answer · why

D) A dog

A dog, stranded and snarling, bites Tea Cake high on the cheek-bone before he kills it. Weeks later a doctor recognises the signs of a mad animal's bi...

Q 03/05

As a delirious Tea Cake fires a pistol at her, Janie kills him with which weapon in Their Eyes Were Watching God?

A) A rifle

B) A shotgun

C) A razor

D) A hatchet

Answer · why

A) A rifle

A rifle shot from Janie lands an instant before Tea Cake's bullet buries itself in the joist over her head. He had taught her to shoot on the muck, wh...

Q 04/05

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, what does a jealous Joe Starks order Janie to keep covered in the store?

A) Her arms

B) Her face

C) Her hair

D) Her ankles

Answer · why

C) Her hair

Her hair goes under a head-rag after Joe sees a man named Walter secretly stroking the end of her braid. The night Joe is buried, Janie burns every on...

Q 05/05

Which actress played Janie Crawford in the 2005 ABC television film of Their Eyes Were Watching God?

A) Angela Bassett

B) Halle Berry

C) Gabrielle Union

D) Regina King

Answer · why

B) Halle Berry

Halle Berry starred as Janie when the film aired in March 2005, with Ruby Dee as Nanny and Michael Ealy as Tea Cake.