Symbols | Characters | Settings | True or False | Fill in the blank |
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Pear tree
Love, sexuality, harmony, nature
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Tea Cake
Seduction through checkers. Likes to gamble
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Eatonville
Built on land given by a captain. Also known as West Maitland.
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False
Janie once met her father
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lake
De ___ is comin'
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Mad dog
Later possesses Tea Cake. Uses cow as a boat.
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Mrs. Turner
Racist. Weird anatomy
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The muck / Everglades / Belle Glade
"where
dey raise all dat cane and string-beans and tomatuhs. Folks don’t do nothin’ down dere but make money and fun and foolishness." |
True
Eatonville is located in Orange County
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sea
Love is lak de ____
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Horizon
A symbol of the possible.
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Stew Beef
“Dey got beef stew, so you know Ah’d
be heah." |
West Palm Beach
Where Janie buried Tea Cake
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False (Coodemay started the altercation)
Because he was drunk, Stew Beef began an altercation in Mrs. Turner's diner
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nature
caution or _____
(what keeps a man from burning himself on a hot stove?) |
Mule
Victimization, hard labor. (Logan buys one for Janie, Joe frees one)
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Nunkie
Makes Janie jealous. Plays with Tea Cake
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Jacksonville
City where Tea Cake threw a party (with Janie's money)
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false (new false teeth)
Mrs. Tyler with her dyed hair, newly straightened and her uncomfortable new ____ teeth, her leathery skin, blotchy with powder and
her giggle. |
wish
Ships at a distance have every man’s ___ on board
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Hurricane
Nature's ultimate strength and disregard for human needs (and love). Causes Janies and Tea Cake to "watch god"
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Who Flung
Took Annie Tyler's money in Tampa
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West Florida
Where the Washburns, Nanny, and Janie once lived
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True (with the Washburns)
Janie was once referred to as "Alphabet"
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Vergible
Tea Cake's real name was ____ Woods
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