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(two words)to begin.”
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this cash
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words)
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Joe Starks
buy with
people?
25. What does Joe Starks buy with cash that
26. Nanny had
to flee herpeople?
childhood master’s plantation because his
surprises
__________ threatened her.
27. Joe ______ Janie when she makes a dinner that he does not like.
28. Tea Cake teaches Janie to play this game.
29. Who says of the porch sitters, “An envious heart makes a
treacherous ear”?
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Cake’saresecret
profession
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the first
chaptersofofthe
the novel
novel are
The
andand
lastlast
chapters
are__________.
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superstitions, stories, dances, and songs that have
__________.
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Customs,
superstitions,
stories, dances, and
orally passed
down
songs that have been orally passed down
5. “The vision of __________ __________ was desecrating the
5. "The vision of __________ __________ was
pear
tree…” (two
desecrating
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pear tree…” (two words)
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of the
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Janie
6.6.Members
of the
__________
warn Janie
Tea and
Cake about
Tea
Cake about
the hurricane coming.
the
hurricane
coming.
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__________family
of Teacalls
Cake’Janie
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TheisWashburn
this name.
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words)
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15. Who amuses Janie by imitating her way of
15. Who
amuses
by imitating her way of sitting and laughing?
sitting
and Janie
laughing?
16.
The
author
refers
toporch
the porch
what
16. The author refers to the
sitterssitters
as whatas
animals?
animals?
19.
__________
__________
symbolically
represents Janie’s
19.The
The
__________
__________
symbolically
blossoming
into
womanhood.
(two
words)
represents Janie’s blossoming into womanhood.
(twoJanie
words)
20. What
hides in her shirt in case Tea Cake disappoints her
22. “He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the
spring,” is about whom? (two words)
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1. “Ah done lived __________’s
way, now Ah means tuh live
mine.” [GRANDMA]
8. Janie’s kiss with __________
__________ is the “end of
her childhood” according to
her grandmother. (two words)
[JOHNNYTAYLOR]
10.At first, Janie resists Tea
Cake’s advances because she is
__________. [OLDER]
11.Janie gets jealous of the relationship between Tea Cake and
__________. [NUNKIE]
12.The men decide which person
gets a coffin and which ones are
put in a mass grave according to
the victim’s __________. [HAIR]
13.Tea Cake takes Janie to do what
by moonlight? [FISH]
17.“[B]ig beans, big cane, big weeds,
big everything” is a description of
the __________. [EVERGLADES]
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1. Tea Cake’s secret profession is
__________. [GAMBLING]
2. Says women are “de mule[s] uh
de world” [NANNY]
3. All but the first and last chapters
of the novel are __________.
[FLASHBACKS]
4. Customs, superstitions, stories,
dances, and songs that have been
orally passed down [FOLKLORE]
18.Generally, Joe does not let Janie
do this. [SPEAK]
21.Tea Cake does this to Janie to
show Mr. Turner that she is his
possession. [BEATS]
23.After her marriage to Logan,
Janie “went on inside to wait for
__________ to begin.” [LOVE]]
24.Janie removes this after Joe dies.
(two words) [HEADRAG]
25.What does Joe Starks buy with
cash that surprises people?
[LAND]
26.Nanny had to flee her childhood
master’s plantation because his
__________ threatened her.
[WIFE]
27.Joe __________ Janie when she
makes a dinner that he does not
like. [SLAPS]
28.Tea Cake teaches Janie to play
this game. [CHECKERS]
29.Who says of the porch sitters,
“An envious heart makes a
treacherous ear”? [PHEOBY]
5. “The vision of __________
__________ was desecrating
the pear tree…” (two words)
[LOGANKILLICKS]
6. Members of the __________
warn Janie and Tea Cake about
the hurricane coming. [SEMINOLES]
7. Janie is __________ of Tea Cake’s
murder. [ACQUITTED]
9. The Washburn family calls Janie
this name. [ALPHABET]
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10. At first, Janie resists Tea Cake’s advances
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11. Janie gets jealous of the relationship between
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12. The men decide which person gets a coffin and
which ones are put in a mass grave according to
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13. Tea Cake takes Janie to do what by moonlight?
[FISH]
17. “[B]ig beans, big cane, big weeds, big
everything” is a description of the __________.
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that she is his possession. [BEATS]
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kiss
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__________
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purchase
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world” [NANNY]
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amuses
Janie
by
imitating
grandmother. (two words) [JOHNNYTAYLOR]
3. The first and last chapters of the novel are
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Janie
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Cake’s advances
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a bee to a blosbecause
she is __________. [OLDER]
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superstitions,
stories, dances, and
[HEZEKIAH]
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tree blossom
in the
11. Janie gets jealous of the relationship between
songs that have been orally passed down
spring,” is about
whom? (two
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author
to the porch
Tea Cake
andrefers
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gets a coffinwords)
and [TEACAKE]
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sitters
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desecrating the pear tree…” (two words)
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__________
__________
the victim’s
__________.
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[LOGANKILLICKS]
13. Tea
Cake takesrepresents
Janie to do
what
6. Members of the __________ warn Janie and
symbolically
Janie’
s by moonlight?
[FISH]
Tea Cake about the hurricane coming.
blossoming into womanhood.
17. “[B]ig beans, big cane, big weeds, big
[SEMINOLES]
(two
words)
[PEARTREE]
everything” is a description of the __________.
7. Janie is __________ of Tea Cake’s murder.
[EVERGLADES]
[ACQUITTED]
18. Generally, Joe does not let Janie do this.
9. The Washburn family calls Janie this name.
[SPEAK]
[ALPHABET]
21. Tea Cake does this to Janie to show Mr. Turner
14. Logan Killicks visits this place to purchase
that she is his possession. [BEATS]
another mule so that Janie can plow. (two
23. After her marriage to Logan, Janie “went on
words) [LAKECITY]
inside to wait for __________ to begin.” [LOVE]
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1. Tea Cake’s secret profession is __________.
[GAMBLING]
2. Says women are “de mule[s] uh de
world” [NANNY]
3. The first and last chapters of the novel are
__________. [FLASHBACKS]
4. Customs, superstitions, stories, dances, and
songs that have been orally passed down
[FOLKLORE]
5. "The vision of __________ __________ was
desecrating the pear tree…” (two words)
[LOGANKILLICKS]
6. Members of the __________ warn Janie and
Tea Cake about the hurricane coming.
[SEMINOLES]
7. Janie is __________ of Tea Cake’s murder.
[ACQUITTED]
9. The Washburn family calls Janie this name.
[ALPHABET]
14. Logan Killicks visits this place to purchase
another mule so that Janie can plow. (two
words) [LAKECITY]
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