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1. Where does Joe sleep after the fight from the preceding chapter? 2. Explain the following sentence: “Well, if she must eat out of a long-handled spoon, she must.” 3. Since Joe is refusing to see Janie, who is cooking and cleaning for him? 4. What does Pheoby advise Janie to do about the rumor that she is poisoning her husband? 5. What does Pheoby know about the medicine man who started the rumor about Janie? 6. What medical problem does Joe have? 7. Describe the character of Death. 8. Joe claims that Janie never had sympathy for him. Does Janie agree? 9. What does Janie want Joe to do before he dies? 10. What has been waiting for Janie in the looking glass? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 9: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. What song does the Elks band play during Joe’s funeral? 2. Why is Janie content to keep things as they are for now? 3. What does Janie do during the evenings? 4. Why does Janie consider returning to where she came from? 5. How long has Joe been dead when Ike Green proposes to help Janie? 6. How does Janie get rid of Ike Green? 7. How long does Janie wear black? 8. How does Hezekiah become more like Joe? 9. How do the townspeople treat Janie after she starts to wear white? 10. Who is pressuring Pheoby to introduce him to Janie? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 10: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. At what time does Tea Cake come into the store? 2. What does Tea Cake buy at the store? 3. Does Janie like checkers? 4. Why does Janie complain about their game? 5. How does Tea Cake intend to get home? 6. Why didn’t Tea Cake tell Janie his name until she asks for it? 7. How does Janie joke about his nickname? 8. What is “knuckle puddin’”? 9. What name does Janie call Tea Cake, and how does he like this name? 10. What does Janie do after Tea Cake walks away? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 11: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. Why does Tea Cake tell Janie to have another Coca-Cola? 2. Where do Janie and Tea Cake go fishing? 3. How is Tea Cake prepared to play with Janie’s hair? 4. What kind of fish does Tea Cake catch for Janie? 5. What does Janie wish about herself? 6. How much does Tea Cake want to bet Janie that he loves her? 7. Why does Tea Cake wake Janie up a couple of days after their fight? 8. What is Tea Cake doing in Janie’s hammock? 9. Why does Tea Cake bring a car to Janie’s store? 10. How long has Tea Cake been saving money to take Janie to the picnic? **Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 12: Questions** 1. How long has Joe been dead in this chapter? 2. What color does Janie usually wear? 3. What does the Pastor say about Tea Cake? 4. Where does Pheoby stop before she goes to Janie’s house? 5. Why doesn’t Janie wear mourning clothes anymore? 6. Why is Pheoby scared that Janie is becoming like a possum? 7. Why does Janie decide to sell the store? 8. What does Janie mean when she says, “ah done lived Grandma’s way, now ah means to live mine”? 9. How is Pheoby like a chicken? 10. What costume is Janie preparing for her marriage to Tea Cake? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 13: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. Does anybody from Eatonville see Janie leave? 2. What does Janie send Pheoby after a week in Jacksonville? 3. Why does Mrs. Samuels ask Janie to drink coffee with her? 4. How did Annie Tyler get her money? 5. How much money does Janie still have in Eatonville? 6. How does Janie know Tea Cake is coming back? 7. What does Tea Cake do with the ugly women who want to get into the party? 8. What happens with two men who want to fight each other at Tea Cake’s party? 9. What does God know about Tea Cake? 10. What is the name of the man who cuts Tea Cake with a razor? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 14: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. When does the bean season open? 2. Why is Tea Cake waiting for his new boss? 3. Why doesn’t Tea Cake gamble while they are waiting for the beans to grow? 4. How does Tea Cake make Janie practice shooting? 5. What is Tea Cake’s favorite dish? 6. Why does Janie make dessert every night? 7. What happens when the houses fill up? 8. Why do people come to Tea Cake and Janie’s house every night? 9. How often does Tea Cake win at gambling? 10. Who won the card game? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 14: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. When does the bean season open? 2. Why is Tea Cake waiting for his new boss? 3. Why doesn’t Tea Cake gamble while they are waiting for the beans to grow? 4. How does Tea Cake make Janie practice shooting? 5. What is Tea Cake’s favorite dish? 6. Why does Janie make dessert every night? 7. What happens when the houses fill up? 8. Why do people come to Tea Cake and Janie’s house every night? 9. How often does Tea Cake win at gambling? 10. Who won the card game? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 16: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. Where do Tea Cake and Janie go now that the season is over and most of the people are leaving? 2. Describe Mrs. Turner. 3. How does Tea Cake joke about Mrs. Turner’s appearance? 4. Mrs. Turner guesses to Janie that Tea Cake is very rich. Why? 5. What does Mrs. Turner believe should be done about the “black race”? 6. According to Janie, why do white people want to stay away from blacks? 7. Why is Mrs. Turner so proud of her brother? 8. What does Tea Cake intend to do about Mrs. Turner’s insults? 9. Why does Tea Cake accuse Mrs. Turner of “making God look foolish”? 10. How does Mrs. Turner feel when she is with Janie? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 17: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. How many times does Tea Cake slap Janie? 2. Why doesn’t Sop-de-Bottom hit his wife anymore? 3. Why don’t the police arrest drunks on the weekend? 4. Why is the whole gang at Mrs. Turner’s café? 5. What do Sterrett and Coodemay order at the café? 6. What does Coodemay ask the waitress to do? 7. How does the fight start? 8. Why does Mrs. Turner try to refuse Tea Cake’s help? 9. What happens when everyone decides to make up? 10. What do Coodemay and Sterrett do on Monday morning? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 18: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. How much money are the workers making picking beans? 2. Who begins to sing and dance to Tea Cake’s guitar? 3. How much money does Tea Cake win from Motor Boat? 4. Why does Tea Cake go out while Janie is packing up their things? 5. How deep is the water when they leave the house? 6. What does Tea Cake have to abandon because of the strength of the storm? 7. How long and wide is Lake Okechobee according to Tea Cake? 8. What does Motor Boat plan to do if the water gets into the house? 9. Why does the cow panic when Janie grabs on to her tail? 10. How could that dog “raised hell” with Tea Cake? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 19: Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. Why does Tea Cake believe he can walk through the streets without being forced to work? 2. What do the white men call Tea Cake? 3. Whom has Tea Cake seen alive, and who has died in the flood? 4. What does Tea Cake refuse from Janie? 5. Whom does Janie meet as she goes to the see the doctor about the medicine? 6. Does the doctor have the medicine for Tea Cake? 7. Why does Tea Cake tell Janie not to work in the front yard? 8. What does Janie do after Tea Cake falls dead on her? 9. What is worse than death to Janie? 10. Why did Sop and the others try to hurt Janie? = Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 20 Questions  = **Study Questions** 1. How does Sop-de-Bottom explain the town’s attack on Mrs. Turner’s brother? 2. How does the town make itself feel better after what they did to Janie? 3. How long had the town’s anger lasted against Janie? 4. What is the Everglades to Janie without Tea Cake? 5. What does Janie keep for herself from the Everglades? 6. What is love like, according to Janie? 7. What does Pheoby plan to do tomorrow? 8. What are the two things that everybody has to do for themselves? 9. What is Tea Cake wearing for a shawl? 10. Where is peace for Janie?
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