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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Zora's mother's family feel about the engagement?

2. How was Zora able to return to school?

3. How long did John Hurston pursue Zora's mother?

4. Zora describes the day her mother gave birth as ______.

5. Zora's parents felt very ______ during her youth.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zora perceive the fight between her mother and grandmother? What does she think should have been done?

2. Was Zora supported in her academic determination and abilities?

3. What was the difference between how men and women were gossiped about in Eatonville?

4. Why was Zora a good nanny to the children at her new job?

5. What was the cultural significance of "Joe Clark's Porch"?

6. In terms of academics, why was Zora' work experience valuable but unfulfilling?

7. Why was Zora fired from her cleaning/nanny job? What is the irony of the reasons they fired her?

8. What was the significance of the "Uncle" figure in Zora's life?

9. Why did the actors of Gilbert and Sullivan tease Zora? What was her relationship with them?

10. Did Zora's mother and father live happily ever after? Why or why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Zora's arguments and complex relationship with religion.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Zora's relationship with school.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Zora's fixation on social politics relates to her effect on the communities of which she is a part. What do we learn through this? About Zora? Her environments? The time?

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