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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 kind of men was Zora attracted to?
(a) Artistic men.
(b) Wealthy men.
(c) Older men.
(d) Men with children.

2. What caused Zora to leave Polk?
(a) She committed a crime.
(b) She was out of money.
(c) The big brawl.
(d) Her family needed her.

3. Why did Zora want to befriend Ethel?
(a) She wanted to learn from her.
(b) She felt they would get along.
(c) She wanted company.
(d) She wanted Ethel's connections.

4. What was Zora offered for her book?
(a) Hundreds of dollars.
(b) A house.
(c) A four-book contract.
(d) An IOU.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zora note about the way forgiveness is taught in church?

2. What was Zora's only bitter feeling about the publication of her first book?

3. In looking back on her relationship with P.M.P, Zora doesn't feel what?

4. What aided Zora's creativity in her life?

5. How did Zora feel about writing a whole book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Was Leon Walter Young notorious? Why?

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

4. How did Zora pursue a friendship with Ethel Waters? Why was she eager to befriend Ethel?

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

6. When is the phrase "My people! My people!" used and why?

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

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

9. What opportunity did Nassau afford Zora?

10. How are Big Sweet and Zora similar?

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