| A | B |
|---|
| BEANS | Crop they picked on the muck |
| DOG | Tea Cake killed it to save Janie |
| EATONVILLE | Town where Joe and Janie settled |
| EVERGLADES | Location of the muck |
| GAMBLING | How Tea Cake got Janie's money |
| HAIR | Janie's most noticeable physical characteristic |
| HEADRAGS | Joe made Janie wear them in the store |
| HEZEKIAH | Acted like Joe in the store |
| HURRICANE | Caused evacuation of the muck |
| JANIE | Narrator of the story |
| JOE | Janie's businessman-mayor husband |
| LOGAN | Janie's farmer husband |
| LAMP | Town celebrated its installation |
| MAYOR | Joe was the first one in Eatonville |
| MOURNING | It shouldn't last any longer than grief |
| MULE | Nanny compared the black woman to one |
| NANNY | Raised Janie |
| PHEOBY | First to hear Janie's story |
| PISTOL | Tea Cake's weapon |
| RABIES | Disease Tea Cake got from dog |
| RIFLE | Janie's weapon |
| SEMINOLES | Janie watched a band of them leave the muck |
| STORE | Joe started one in Eatonville |
| SWALLOW | What Tea Cake couldn't do when he was sick |
