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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) Her religion.
(d) If she has children.

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

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

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

5. What happens when Hurston arrives at Pine Mill?
(a) The people elect her as mayor.
(b) She goes to work.
(c) Everyone asks her to dance.
(d) No one asks her to dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does John trick into holding the animal in the field?

2. In Chapter 4, what does Hurston claim that she does not want to do to the reader?

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

4. How do the men react to their partners at a "toe party"?

5. How do young men get to dance at a "toe party"?

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