Jeopardy
Janie’s
Vocabulary
Early Life
Life
with Joe
Life with
Tea Cake
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MISC.
Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Vocabulary
What is the definition of proffered?
$100 Answer from Vocabulary
Offered
$200 Question from Vocabulary
What is the definition of conjecture?
$200 Answer from Vocabulary
Idea
$300 Question from Vocabulary
What is the definition of cowed?
$300 Answer from Vocabulary
frightened
$400 Question from Vocabulary
What is the definition of transient?
$400 Answer from Vocabulary
A wanderer
$500 Question from Vocabulary
What is the definition of coquetry?
$500 Answer from Vocabulary
flirtation
$100 Question from Janie's Early
Life
Where did Janie go to think?
$100 Answer from Janie's Early
Life
The pear tree
$200 Question from Janie's Early
Life
Why was the plantation owner’s
wife furious with Nanny?
$200 Answer from Janie's Early
Life
Her husband was the father
of Nanny’s baby (Leafy).
$300 Question from Janie's Early
Life
Who did Janie kiss over the fence?
$300 Answer from Janie's Early
Life
Johnny Taylor
$400 Question from Janie's Early
Life
How long was Janie married
to Logan?
$400 Answer from Janie's Early
Life
About one year
(a bloom time, a green time,
and an orange time) p. 25
$500 Question from Janie's Early
Life
Who said the below quote? To whom?
“ You ain’t done me no favor by marryin’
me. And if dat’s what you call yo’self doin’,
Ah don’t thank yuh for it. Youse mad ‘cause
Ah’m tellin’ yuh whut you already knowed.”
$500 Answer from Janie's Early
Life
Janie to Logan (p. 31)
$100 Question from Life with Joe
How did Joe become mayor?
$100 Answer from Life with Joe
At the store opening, it was pointed out
that the town needed a mayor, and
Joe was “nominated”. (p. 43)
$200 Question from Life with Joe
Why did the town have a barbeque?
(to celebrate what?)
$200 Answer from Life with Joe
The lamp lighting
$300 Question from Life with Joe
Why was Joe so angry about Janie
saying he looked old?
$300 Answer from Life with Joe
Janie said it in front of other men
and insulted Joe’s manhood.
$400 Question from Life with Joe
Why did Joe run Henry Pitts out of town?
$400 Answer from Life with Joe
Henry stole a load of sugar cane.
$500 Question from Life with Joe
When did the following situation happen?
“She stood there until something fell of the shelf
inside of her…. It was her image of Jody tumbled
down and shattered…. She had no more blossomy
openings dusting pollen over her man…. She was
saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly
she knew how not to mix them.”
$500 Answer from Life with Joe
After Janie burned the dinner and Joe
hit her for the first time. (p. 72)
$100 Question from Life with
Tea Cake
Why did Tea Cake hit Janie?
$100 Answer from Life with Tea
Cake
To show everyone she was his.
$200 Question from Life with
Tea Cake
What did Tea Cake do with Janie’s
hidden money?
$200 Answer from Life with Tea
Cake
Tea Cake gave a free supper and
bought a guitar.
$300 Question from Life with
Tea Cake
Who told Tea Cake that Mrs. Turner’s
brother was back on the muck?
$300 Answer from Life with Tea
Cake
Sop-de-Bottom
$400 Question from Life with
Tea Cake
What two things did Janie tell Pheoby
that people have to do for themselves?
$400 Answer from Life with Tea
Cake
1. Go to God
2. Find out about living for themselves.
$500 Question from Life with
Tea Cake
Explain the following quote
(setting & meaning):
“They seemed to be staring at the dark,
but their eyes were watching God.”
$500 Answer from Life with Tea
Cake
Setting: Tea Cake, Janie, & Motor Boat
waiting out the hurricane
Meaning:
$100 Question from MISC.
What is Tea Cake’s real name?
$100 Answer from MISC.
Vergible Woods
$200 Question from MISC.
What is the name of the structure of
this story?
Hint: It’s a story within a story.
$200 Answer from MISC.
Framework Story
$300 Question from MISC.
Why did Joe run Henry Pitts out of town?
$300 Answer from MISC.
Henry stole sugar cane.
$400 Question from MISC.
Who is Tony Robbins in the book?
$400 Answer from MISC.
A man who said he would never
hit his wife.
$500 Question from MISC.
Who said the following quote and to whom?
“Lawd! Ah done growed ten feet higher
from jus’ listenin’ tuh you. Ah ain’
satisfied wid mahself no mo’.”
$500 Answer from MISC.
Pheoby to Janie
Final Jeopardy
Name two symbols in
Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Final Jeopardy Answer
Pear Tree
Horizon
Hair
Hurricane