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 * //Their Eyes Were Watching God// Reading Questions**


 * Unit 3: Chapters 9-13

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Directions:** Answer the questions in the space provided below each.

1. What does Janie do after Joe’s death that is the only change in her?

2. What is symbolic about the above action?

3. Why do men start hanging around Janie other than she is attractive and single?

4. Why does Janie refuse to remarry at first even though she has plenty of suitors?

5.How does Janie meet Tea Cake?

6.What does Tea Cake invite Janie to do that makes her attracted to him from the very beginning?

7. How old is Tea Cake? How old is Janie?

8. Tea Cake stay away an entire week before he visits Janie again. What do they do the entire night when he finally returns?

9. Tea Cake spends the night and says the moon is too pretty for them to go to bed. What does he suggest they should do together?

10. After they have dinner together, what does Tea Cake do that lulls Janie to sleep?

11. Janie is concerned because she is so much older than Tea Cake. How does Tea Cake allay her fears?

12. Tongues in the town are wagging when Janie takes up with Tea Cake. Why do they condemn Janie for the relationship? Why do they condemn Tea Cake?

13. Why does Janie make the decision to sell the store?

14. Janie wakes up one morning to fine Tea Cake gone and her two hundred dollars missing. She compare herself to Annie Tyler. Explain what happened to Annie Tyler.

15. After Tea Cake wins $322, he says to Janie, “We goin’ on de muck.” Explain what this means.