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Introduction, "John Redding Goes to Sea," "The Conversion of Sam," and "A Bit of Harlem"

1. Every story in the collection Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick belongs to which literary movement?
(a) Transcendentalism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) The Harlem Renaissance.

2. How many stories in total are presented within the collection Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick?
(a) 21.
(b) 31.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

3. In what year was Zora Neale Hurston's famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God published?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1945.

4. With which writer did Zora Neale Hurston have a falling-out, according to the text's introduction?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

5. How many of the stories in the collection have never before been presented to a modern audience?
(a) 2.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

6. Before the discovery of a number of stories focused on urban environments, how many such stories by Zora Neale Hurston were previously thought to exist?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

7. How old is John at the beginning of the story entitled "John Redding Goes to Sea"?
(a) 14.
(b) 10.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

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