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

2. What do people hide behind at a "toe party"?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A curtain.
(c) A foot.
(d) A door.

3. What story does Gold tell in Chapter 2?
(a) How God created skin color.
(b) How the rhino got its horn.
(c) How the banker became greedy.
(d) Why churches are tall.

4. Who is the person that is traveling in this book?
(a) Hurston.
(b) Jake.
(c) Mule boy.
(d) Gold.

5. What does Hurston think of the local liquor served at the "toe party"?
(a) It tastes like water.
(b) It tastes great.
(c) It is too weak.
(d) It is too strong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the man in Chapter 2 know he was not meant to be a preacher?

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

3. In Chapter 2, what topic do most of the stories cover?

4. In Chapter 3, who tells the first story?

5. Why does the person who died in the Johnstown flood say someone is rude?

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