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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Zora feel about the Roosevelts?
(a) She was obsessed with them.
(b) She was very unahppy with them.
(c) She admired them.
(d) She didn't care as much as her father did.

2. For what was Leon Walter Young famous?
(a) Fooling everyone.
(b) Cleaning up the city.
(c) Running off the governor.
(d) His inidelities.

3. How does Zora describe the challenges she's faced in her life?
(a) Petty.
(b) Average.
(c) Terrifying.
(d) Easy.

4. Zora describes her father's revivals as ______.
(a) Dull.
(b) Cliche.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Approprite.

5. What defined the political makeup of Polk County?
(a) Strict.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Normal.
(d) Lawless.

6. What did Zora survive in Nassau?
(a) A crime spree.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A flood.
(d) A hurricane.

7. Zora's father is an expert at _________________.
(a) Getting people to convert.
(b) Getting others to repent.
(c) Getting people to come to church.
(d) Convincing people of his ideas.

8. What does Zora note about the way forgiveness is taught in church?
(a) It's strange.
(b) It's by the book.
(c) It's excessive.
(d) It's inadequate.

9. Ethel Waters was very ______.
(a) Feminine.
(b) Shy.
(c) Outrageous.
(d) Confrontational.

10. In her research in the South, Zora was assigned to gather ______.
(a) Evidence.
(b) Gold.
(c) Folktales.
(d) Relics.

11. In looking back on her relationship with P.M.P, Zora doesn't feel what?
(a) Nostalgic.
(b) Happy.
(c) Anything.
(d) Resentful.

12. What has Zora discovered at the end of "My People! My People!" about the nature of blacks and whites?
(a) There is no quintessential person.
(b) They are more similar than different.
(c) They have no reason to dislike eachother.
(d) There are too many differences to count.

13. When Zora had an "affair" with the President of her school, she called it a _____ affair.
(a) Literary.
(b) Pretend.
(c) Brief.
(d) Flawed.

14. Zora referred to white men as ______.
(a) Scum.
(b) Bording.
(c) Ephemeral.
(d) Royal.

15. Around whom was Fanny Hurst usually found?
(a) Children.
(b) Other women.
(c) Writers.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zora's relationship with P.M.P try?

2. What did the students call Dr. Boas?

3. Why did Zora want to befriend Ethel?

4. What was Zora offered for her book?

5. Zora chose not to approach Ethel as a _____.

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