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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. What is uncommon amongst whites and Yankees in Zora's opinion?

2. Why was there pressure for Zora to write about "the race problem"?

3. Ethel Waters was very ______.

4. What is the meaning of "My people! My people!" in the African American community?

5. In "Two Women," what element of female life is Zora portraying?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Zora's relationships fail?

4. Why did Zora have to flee Polk County?

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

6. What was special about John Hurston's portrait of hell?

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

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

9. How are Big Sweet and Zora similar?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Zora's approach to men in her romantic life and how this ties to events prior to her maturity.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of P.M.P and how this relationship (and break up) embodied the essence of Zora.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the pairing of Zora's early adulthood and her nature and how Zora can orchestrate all the elements of herself to her detriment or her favor.

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