their eyes-chapter 2

Question 1

pear tree represents

Answer 1

sexual awakenings

Question 2

the tree is a metaphor to

Answer 2

life

Question 3

what does she cal her grandma

Answer 3

nanny

Question 4

when did she realize that she wasn’t white

Answer 4

six years old

Question 5

what did she used to be called

Answer 5

alphabet

Question 6

what was the white womans name

Answer 6

mis Washburn

Question 7

what was the girl’s name that teased Janie a lot in school

Answer 7

Mayrella

Question 8

who was janie’s first kiss

Answer 8

Johnny Taylor

Question 9

“the rose of the world was breathing out smell”

Answer 9

narrator

important quote

Question 10

pain remorseless sweet

Answer 10

oxymoron

Question 11

she was how old when sitting under the pear tree

Answer 11

sixteen

Question 12

“that was before the golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and her eyes”

Answer 12

describing Johnny taylor

Question 13

how does janie see johnny taylor

Answer 13

as a glorious being

Question 14

when was the end of janie’s childhood

Answer 14

when she went inside after her kiss with johnny

Question 15

nanny’s head and face are compared to the

Answer 15

standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm

Question 16

nannys words made janie’s kiss look like

Answer 16

a manure pile after a rain

Question 17

what does nanny think of brother logan killicks

Answer 17

he has money and that he is a good man

Question 18

what does janie think of brother logan killicks

Answer 18

he look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard

Question 19

janie’s father

Answer 19

ran off

Question 20

logan killicks symbolizes

Answer 20

protection

Question 21

us colored folks is

Answer 21

branches without roots
tree imagery
nanny

Question 22

who was nanny’s slave master

Answer 22

marse roberts

Question 23

look like she had been living through one hundred years in january without one day of spring

Answer 23

hyperbole and simile

Question 24

janie’s mom’s name

Answer 24

leafy

Question 25

when were the good days

Answer 25

when nanny worked with the white people

Question 26

when and how was leafy raped

Answer 26

17, by a school teacher in the woods at night

Question 27

nanny compares herself to a

Answer 27

cracked plate

Question 28

what does everyone know about janie’s father

Answer 28

that the police sent bloodhounds after him

Question 29

what does nobody know about janie’s father

Answer 29

that he tried to marry her mom