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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Folk Tales, Chapters 4 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shug is short for _____________.
(a) Shrugger.
(b) Shorty.
(c) Shoulder.
(d) Sugar.

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

3. Why, in Chapter 4, is the men's workday canceled?
(a) The foreman is ill.
(b) It's a holiday.
(c) The snow.
(d) The rain.

4. Why does the person who died in the Johnstown flood say someone is rude?
(a) They didn't open the gates.
(b) He doesn't listen to his story.
(c) She yelled at him.
(d) They wouldn't send him back.

5. Why was the first slave not punished for cussing out the master in Chapter 5?
(a) He didn't do it to his face.
(b) He used proper grammar.
(c) He did it in English.
(d) He did it in Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sign does Hurston see in Chapter 4 that intrigues her?

3. What does Hurston claim the Sheriff will do to the woman who killed five men?

4. What was in the smaller box in the tale of two boxes?

5. Who says "Big Moose done come down from de mountain"?

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