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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the students call Dr. Boas?
(a) Harrold.
(b) Dr. Boas.
(c) Papa.
(d) Big Brother.
2. Why didn't Zora want to write about "the race problem"?
(a) She didn't know what to say.
(b) She didn't want to make it an issue.
(c) She thought it was unimportant.
(d) She felt it was overdone.
3. In New Orleans, Zora became involved in ______.
(a) A gang.
(b) Volunteer work.
(c) Hoodoo.
(d) The church.
4. What did Lucy want with Zora?
(a) To be her friend.
(b) To get her autograph.
(c) To get advice.
(d) To get her.
5. In looking back on her relationship with P.M.P, Zora doesn't feel what?
(a) Resentful.
(b) Anything.
(c) Nostalgic.
(d) Happy.
6. Where did Fanny take Zora on a spontaneous trip?
(a) New York.
(b) Eatonville.
(c) California.
(d) Niagara Falls.
7. What "game" did Fanny play at?
(a) Cops and robbers.
(b) Hockey.
(c) Being a guest in her own home.
(d) House.
8. How many people could John Hurston lead in his revivals?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Twelve.
9. What has Zora discovered at the end of "My People! My People!" about the nature of blacks and whites?
(a) They have no reason to dislike eachother.
(b) There are too many differences to count.
(c) They are more similar than different.
(d) There is no quintessential person.
10. P.M.P was a wedge between Zora and her _______.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Career.
(c) Friends.
(d) Family.
11. Zora chose not to approach Ethel as a _____.
(a) Woman.
(b) Southerner.
(c) Writer.
(d) Fan.
12. Zora referred to white men as ______.
(a) Bording.
(b) Scum.
(c) Royal.
(d) Ephemeral.
13. While discussing distinctions within her own race, she explains that educated people ______ raucous people.
(a) Ostracize
(b) Bully.
(c) Patronize.
(d) Help.
14. How did Zora's findings in Nassau influence her research?
(a) The stories became very popular.
(b) The stories were the same as Florida.
(c) She realized what she'd been doing wrong.
(d) She chose to quit the job.
15. What caused Zora to leave Polk?
(a) Her family needed her.
(b) The big brawl.
(c) She committed a crime.
(d) She was out of money.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Zora to start her research in the south?
2. What did Zora's relationship with P.M.P try?
3. How did Zora's boyfriends respond to Zora's fears?
4. How did Dr. Boas receive Zora's failure?
5. Zora describes her father's revivals as ______.
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