Homework and Reading

TEWWG Chapters 5 - 7 Reading Questions - Answer on college ruled notebook paper using COMPLETE sentences.

Chapter Five

1. Why do you think the author begins Chapter 5 with the sentence “On the train the next day, Joe didn’t make many speeches with rhymes to her…” Why is this sentence familiar?

2. What is Janie and Joe’s first impression of the town?

3. When Joe realizes what the town is really like, what does he plan to do

4. What do you think of Amos Hicks and Lee Coker? What do their personalities and behavior tell you about the town?

5. Why do you think Joe Starks is so set upon building a store and a post office? What does this tell you about his personality and motives?

6. How do the townspeople reward Starks?

7. How does Joe treat Janie? What does/doesn’t he allow her to do?

8. What is symbolic about the streetlamp that Starks bought?

9. How does Janie feel about her marriage to Joe?

10. How is Janie treated as the Mayor’s wife?

11. What is symbolic about the way Starks paints his house?

12. What do the townspeople notice about the way Joe treats Janie?

Chapter Six

1. How do the men at the store tease Matt Bonner about his mule?

2. Why is Janie having such a hard time managing the store?

3. Why does Starks buy the mule from Matt Bonner?

4. How is freeing the mule symbolic? To whom do the townspeople compare Starks?

5. Why doesn’t Joe allow Janie to go to the “draggin’-out”?

6. After the mule dies, the townspeople begin an entire funeral for the mule. Even the buzzards engage in

what hints at a ritualistic ceremony. Why do you think Hurston included this strange ceremony among the

buzzards?

7. Why does Joe think that Janie is being ungrateful?

8. According to Sam and Lige, what is it that keeps a man from being burned on the stove? Explain. Who do you think “wins” the argument?

9. What do you think the author meant by “The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in”?

Chapter Seven

1. How is Janie able to “tolerate” her relationship with Jody?

2. What does the narrator mean by “For the first time she could see a man’s head naked of its skull”?

3. Why did the narrator say that the incident with the tobacco was “like somebody snatched off part of a

woman’s clothes while she wasn’t looking and the streets were crowded”?

4. How old are Janie and Jody now?

5. How does Janie insult Jody about his age?

6. How does Jody react to this insult?

Tone Vocab -

In the back of your comp book make three columns - word, definition, "my" definition. Please complete columns one and two from the "Language Words" list.