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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. When did Zora discuss race?

2. How does Zora describe reconnecting with her family after so long?

3. For how long could John Hurston's revivals go?

4. When Zora had an "affair" with the President of her school, she called it a _____ affair.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What opportunity did Nassau afford Zora?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Zora's relationships fail?

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

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

9. Why was Ethel Waters a challenge to befriend?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Zora's relationship with white people.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Zora's arguments and complex relationship with religion.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the effect of the surrogate mothers and fathers on Zora's life.

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