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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 do the people in town want to know about the author when she arrives in town?
(a) How much she makes.
(b) How long she will be there.
(c) Her religion.
(d) If she has children.

2. What do the men hear in Chapter 6 on their way to the "jook joint"?
(a) Voices.
(b) An accident.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Fighting.

3. What was in the smaller box in the tale of two boxes?
(a) A pen and paper.
(b) A hammer and nail.
(c) A wallet.
(d) A cake.

4. How many loads of ammunition are in the gun in Larkins White's story?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

5. What does the man go to find in Larkins White's story to carry home all of his belongings?
(a) A carriage.
(b) A car.
(c) A wagon.
(d) A wheelbarrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story about the slave and the gun, what was the slave sent to shoot?

2. In Chapter 9, Hurston warns that it is harmful to _____________.

3. Whom does John trick into holding the animal in the field?

4. Whom does Hurston plan to stay with in town?

5. What are "flutter bys"?

(see the answer key)

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