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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Country in the Woman," "The Gilded Six-Bits," "She Rock," and "The Fire and the Cloud".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men of Eatonville do about the physical abuse that Mr. McDuffy inflicts on his wife each Sunday after church?
(a) They grant her a divorce.
(b) They force him to move out of town.
(c) They give him a beating.
(d) Nothing.

2. Bentley treats everyone in his life abominably with the exception of which character?
(a) Swift Deer.
(b) Magnolia Flower.
(c) Joe Clarke.
(d) John.

3. Hurston uses the name Babylon as a euphemism for which real city in the story "She Rock," among others?
(a) Orlando.
(b) New York City.
(c) Eatonville.
(d) Tupelo.

4. How old is Lilya, the protagonist of the story "The Back Room"?
(a) 36.
(b) 29.
(c) 23.
(d) 38.

5. With which writer did Zora Neale Hurston have a falling-out, according to the text's introduction?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) James Baldwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The jawbone of what type of animal figures into the storyline of "The Bone of Contention"?

2. In the story entitled "Sweat," what does Delia Jones do for a living?

3. In what Florida town does the story entitled "She Rock" take place?

4. What is the relationship between Missie May and Joe at the beginning of the story "The Gilded Six-Bits?

5. What role does Jazzbo play within the narrative of the story "The Book of Harlem"?

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