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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hoodoo, Chapters 1 through 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tile does Hurston receive after her initiation with Reverend Father Joe Watson?
(a) Boss of the wind.
(b) Boss of the grapes.
(c) Boss of the candles.
(d) Boss of the serpents.

2. What does it mean if it rains at a funeral?
(a) A storm is coming.
(b) God is happy.
(c) God is displeased.
(d) The angels are sad.

3. A man tells a story about firing a gun out the doorway. What time of day was it?
(a) Morning.
(b) dusk.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Night.

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

5. What game is going on at the joint in Chapter 9?
(a) Cards.
(b) Scrabble.
(c) Poker.
(d) Lotto.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Flutter bys" later become known as ____________.

2. What does Hurston think of the local liquor served at the "toe party"?

3. What does a man tell Hurston some people are only good at doing to groceries?

4. How long does it take before the snail wife sees her husband again?

5. In Chapter 4, Hurston does her first consultation for _____________.

(see the answer key)

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