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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Dust Tracks on the Road : Chapter 2, I Get Born & The Inside Search.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zora's anecdotes are vivid but _______.
(a) Dense.
(b) Brief.
(c) Unclear.
(d) Long.

2. Why are parents annoyed by children asking questions, according to Zora?
(a) Children shouldn't know too much.
(b) Parents have to think about what they actually do know and what they don't know.
(c) Parents like to be quiet.
(d) The children won't listen to the answers.

3. Zora believed that when children ask their parents questions they are making them _______.
(a) Leave.
(b) Pay attention to them.
(c) Spend money.
(d) Think.

4. Zora's mother's family name was _____.
(a) Hurston.
(b) Carlson.
(c) Ford.
(d) Potts.

5. How did Zora's mother know the white man who comes to her?
(a) He was a close friend.
(b) He'd delivered her other children.
(c) He was a community member.
(d) He was their landlord.

Short Answer Questions

1. The white neighbors of Maitland were very _______.

2. Zora's mother showed no interest in Hurston _____.

3. To what is "a crow in a pigeon's nest" referring?

4. Eatonville was founded after what war?

5. Eatonville was established as an all _______ town.

(see the answer key)

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