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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Drenched in Light," "Spunk," "Magnolia Flower," "Black Death," and "The Bone of Contention".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The opening and closing frames of the story "Magnolia Flower" consist of conversations between which two bodies of water?
(a) A river and a reservoir.
(b) A river and a pond.
(c) A river and a brook.
(d) A river and a lake.

2. The boy at the center of the story "A Bit of Harlem" tells the young woman that he will come back on which holiday?
(a) Christmas Day.
(b) Halloween.
(c) Christmas Eve.
(d) Easter.

3. What is the last name of Isis, the protagonist of the story "Drenched in Light"?
(a) Kanty.
(b) Potts.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Watts.

4. Every story in the collection Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick belongs to which literary movement?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) The Harlem Renaissance.
(d) Transcendentalism.

5. The narrator reveals that the people in Sam's community view him as a what?
(a) A psychologist.
(b) A gossip.
(c) A comedian.
(d) A fool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near the end of the story "Magnolia Flower," it is stated that John and Magnolia Flower had gotten married how many years before?

2. In which season does the mother of Beau's lover confront him about the child he has conceived with her daughter?

3. The overwrought expression of which emotion causes Bentley's death, according to the narrator?

4. What gesture does Isis make that serves to "heap kindling on" her grandmother's "already burning ire" (75)?

5. As depicted in "The Bone of Contention," men living in Eatonville gather at Joe Clarke's store to socialize, though they use what errand as an excuse?

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