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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the students call Dr. Boas?
(a) Big Brother.
(b) Dr. Boas.
(c) Harrold.
(d) Papa.

2. Why did Zora fail in her first try at research?
(a) She asked the wrong questions.
(b) She didn't know who to talk to.
(c) She didn't have enough money.
(d) Her approach was bad.

3. 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.

4. What was Zora's only bitter feeling about the publication of her first book?
(a) She wished it had been longer.
(b) Her father didn't read it.
(c) She dedicated it to a man who left her later.
(d) She felt overly assisted.

5. Being found attractive was a ______ part of Zora's adulthood.
(a) Favorite.
(b) Normal.
(c) Dreaded.
(d) Unusual.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Big Sweet act tough?

2. When was Zora to start her research in the south?

3. How did Zora feel about the Roosevelts?

4. Zora referred to white men as ______.

5. While discussing distinctions within her own race, she explains that educated people ______ raucous people.

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Zora gain her lingual abilities? How did these abilities aid her and her father's careers?

2. In Zora's early romantic life, what was her nature? Why was she this way?

3. Why was Zora's relationship with P.M.P a trial of her will and nature?

4. Why was Ethel Waters a challenge to befriend?

5. Were Zora's school and work life beginning to blend at Barnard? Was this a good combination for her?

6. Did Zora find that there is a quintessential black person? A white person?

7. What was the primary dysfunction in Zora and P.M.P's relationship? Why did it end?

8. How are Zora and Fanny Hurst compatible? Why did they make good friends?

9. Why was Zora's new writing career challenging for her financially? How did she overcome it?

10. How did the miners in Polk County get a history lesson?

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