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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 attracted Zora to P.M.P?

2. What happened after Zora paid her rent?

3. How did Zora's boyfriends respond to Zora's fears?

4. What did the miners in Polk find in the mines?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was John Hurston's reputation as a preacher? How did he gain this status and reputation?

2. Why was Ethel Waters a challenge to befriend?

3. What was Zora's initial failure in her folktale project? How was this received?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How are Big Sweet and Zora similar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the importance of Zora's time at Gilbert and Sullivan and the effect it has on her. What do we learn about her from it?

Essay Topic 2

Zora is a very independent person. However, she has received assistance through her life. Discuss Zora in relationship to patronage.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Eatonville, Florida, in what it embodies and instills in Zora's life in terms of race, society, and art. How did it affect her?

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