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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Folk Tales, Chapters 1 through 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the younger brother at the end of the story in Chapter 2 do for a living?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Plows fields.
(c) Preaches.
(d) Rides in the rodeo.

2. In Chapter 3, who ends the story by interrupting?
(a) Kyle.
(b) John.
(c) Kenny.
(d) Jack.

3. What does "Big Moose done come down from de mountain" mean?
(a) Winter is here.
(b) Important things will happen.
(c) Death is coming.
(d) An earthquake is coming.

4. Why is the rude person uninterested in speaking to the person who died in the Johnstown flood?
(a) He is busy cleaning harps.
(b) He knows all there is to know about floods.
(c) She is too busy
(d) She is busy watching her family.

5. Why did the man in Chapter 2 know he was not meant to be a preacher?
(a) He ate two chickens instead of four.
(b) He did land on the other side of the log.
(c) He slept through church.
(d) He didn't hear his voice in the well.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many times is Hurston "sold" at the "toe party"?

3. What caused the Johnstown flood?

4. Who is the person that is traveling in this book?

5. Who is the rude person that the person who died in Johnstown flood encounters?

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