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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. The narrator reveals that the people in Sam's community view him as a what?
2. With which writer did Zora Neale Hurston have a falling-out, according to the text's introduction?
3. The white woman in the company of Isis at the story's end exclaims aloud that Isis is what emotion "itself," before describing her as "Drenched in Light" (83)?
4. At the start of the story "John Redding Goes to Sea," for how many years have Matty and Alfred been married?
5. The opening and closing frames of the story "Magnolia Flower" consist of conversations between which two bodies of water?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In what way is Hurston a bit of an anomaly within the literary movement with which she is associated?
3. Discuss the significance of the final passages included within the story "John Redding Goes to Sea."
4. Describe the end of Bentley's life.
5. For what reason does John leave the house during a storm in the story entitled "John Redding Goes to Sea"?
6. What contrast between the white culture and the black culture does Hurston highlight within the opening of "Black Death"?
7. Who is Beau Diddely?
8. In what way is the theme of family bonds depicted in the story entitled "John Redding Goes to Sea"?
9. What does Spunk's Stetson hat represent within the story entitled "Spunk"?
10. In what way does the story entitled "A Bit of Harlem" put forth an argument about the need for intersectionality when it comes to the discussion of race?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
All of the characters in the collection have specific yet varied relationships with money. Examine the theme of money in the text and how it affects the various characters.
Essay Topic 2
Choose an object from Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick, such as the gold watch charm, the tablecloth, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Hurston's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick.
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