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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) Wealthy men.
(b) Older men.
(c) Men with children.
(d) Artistic men.

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

3. How did Zora feel about writing a whole book?
(a) Skittish.
(b) Confident.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Excited.

4. What attracted Zora to P.M.P?
(a) His manliness.
(b) His kindness.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His talent.

5. While at Barnard, Zora's work and school lives began to ______.
(a) Conflict.
(b) Undergo criticism.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Blend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the primary rumor about Big Sweet?

2. In her research in the South, Zora was assigned to gather ______.

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Was Leon Walter Young notorious? Why?

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

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

4. How does Zora address "the race problem" in her work? Why does she approach it as she does?

5. Through showing her friendships with Ethel Waters and Fanny Hurst, what is Zora communicating to the reader?

6. Why did Zora's relationships fail?

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

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

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

10. What was the argument between the whore and prostitute in Polk County? Why does Zora single this instance out?

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