Q 01/05

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie finds her happiest years picking beans 'on the muck' in which region?

A) The Everglades

B) The Okefenokee Swamp

C) The Mississippi Delta

D) The Florida Keys

Answer · why

A) The Everglades

The Everglades. Kept behind a shop counter and out of the porch talk by her second husband, Janie works the bean fields beside her third and is at las...

Q 02/05

Hurston gave Eatonville, Florida, as her birthplace, but in which state was she actually born?

A) Georgia

B) Alabama

C) Mississippi

D) South Carolina

Answer · why

B) Alabama

Alabama. She was born in Notasulga but reached Eatonville as a toddler, and it was Eatonville that she called home.

Q 03/05

After her mother died, Hurston was sent from all-Black Eatonville to a boarding school in which Florida city?

A) Tallahassee

B) Jacksonville

C) Gainesville

D) Pensacola

Answer · why

B) Jacksonville

Jacksonville. Her father soon remarried, she and her stepmother could not get on, and before long she was on her own and working for her keep.

Q 04/05

Hurston spent 18 months touring as a singer's personal attendant in a troupe that performed whose operettas?

A) Johann Strauss II

B) Gilbert and Sullivan

C) Jacques Offenbach

D) Victor Herbert

Answer · why

B) Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan. The company's actors lent her books, played her classical music and treated her as one of their own; she counted the months with...

Q 05/05

Hurston's mother urged her children to 'jump at' what, saying they would at least get off the ground?

A) The moon

B) The stars

C) The sun

D) The chance

Answer · why

C) The sun

The sun. 'We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground,' Hurston recalled; her father took the opposite line and warned her ...