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

2. In Mathilda Mosley's story, woman asks God for ____________.
(a) Keys.
(b) Clothes.
(c) A harp.
(d) Gold.

3. Where does the person go after dying in the Johnstown flood?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Hell.
(c) Pergatory.
(d) Miami.

4. Why are the people at Pine Mill afraid of Hurston?
(a) Her car.
(b) Her clothes.
(c) Her loud voice.
(d) Her gun.

5. Another man in Chapter 4 tells a story about a man dipped in a river. What river was the man dipped in?
(a) Mississippi River.
(b) Salty River.
(c) Hudson River.
(d) Erie River.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, where does Hurston initially plan to follow the men to work?

2. In Chapter 4, what was in the larger box in the tale of two boxes?

3. Why does Hurston go to Pine Mill?

4. How does Hurston become accepted by people in Chapter 4?

5. What is the fight that breaks out in Chapter 2 about?

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