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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Folk Tales, Chapters 7 through 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does Mathilda Mosley tell in Chapter 2?
(a) How men take advantage of women.
(b) How women take advantage of men.
(c) How zebras got their stripes.
(d) How lawyers speak to satan.

2. What stories do the men tell on the way to work in Chapter 4?
(a) About working in an office.
(b) About pretty people.
(c) About birds.
(d) About ugly people.

3. What street does Hurston stay on when she arrives in town?
(a) Front Street.
(b) Cycle Lane.
(c) Back Street.
(d) Abbey Leaf Lane.

4. Floyd Thomas says God has the right to ______________.
(a) Change his mind.
(b) Dance.
(c) Eat good food.
(d) Be joyful.

5. How many times is Hurston "sold" at the "toe party"?
(a) Five times.
(b) One time.
(c) Ten times.
(d) Never.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hurston want to go to a new location at the end of Chapter 3?

2. Why did the bullet remain in the story about firing a gun out the doorway?

3. What do people make drinks out of at the joint?

4. In Mathilda Mosley's story, woman asks God for ____________.

5. Chapter 9 begins in _____________.

(see the answer key)

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