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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. How old is Sam when he falls back into his addiction to gambling?
2. At the start of the story "John Redding Goes to Sea," for how many years have Matty and Alfred been married?
3. What gesture does Isis make that serves to "heap kindling on" her grandmother's "already burning ire" (75)?
4. What street does Sam begin to frequent once he falls back into a pattern of compulsive gambling?
5. The narrator states that no one in John's community had ever traveled farther than which city?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the main setting of the story "The Bone of Contention" and for what reason is the same setting represented within the story "Spunk" and others?
2. Describe the way in which the definition of courage is called into question within the story "Spunk."
3. In what way is the theme of family bonds depicted in the story entitled "John Redding Goes to Sea"?
4. In what way is Hurston a bit of an anomaly within the literary movement with which she is associated?
5. In what way does Hurston depict the difference between the two generations depicted in "Magnolia Flower"?
6. Discuss an instance in the collection when Hurston emphasizes the way in which white people exoticize black people.
7. What contrast between the white culture and the black culture does Hurston highlight within the opening of "Black Death"?
8. For what reason does John leave the house during a storm in the story entitled "John Redding Goes to Sea"?
9. What does the gate post symbolize within the story entitled "Drenched in Light"?
10. What does the young disabled man featured in "A Bit of Harlem" say his teacher had told him about heaven? Why is this comment significant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the collection Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick and how does their treatment relate to the collection's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
Trace the characterization arc of a particular protagonist featured in the pages of the collection Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick. Discuss whether your chosen protagonist is a round or flat character, whether the character is a static or dynamic character, and other aspects of characterization Hurston uses to bring your chosen character to life.
Essay Topic 3
How is the theme of invisibility portrayed in Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick? Examine Hurston's treatment of and messages regarding invisibility throughout the work.
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