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

2. How do young men get to dance at a "toe party"?
(a) They sing.
(b) They pay.
(c) They fight.
(d) They have a dance off.

3. In Chapter 4, the men tell stories about bosses. What are the bosses like?
(a) Nice.
(b) Funny.
(c) Annoying.
(d) Mean.

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

5. Why did the boss dock the workers' pay after the boiler explosion?
(a) The mill closed.
(b) They were up in the air.
(c) They caused the explosion.
(d) The money burned in the fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the men doing at the start of Chapter 6?

2. Whom does the deceased person speak to after dying in the Johnstown flood?

3. Shug is short for _____________.

4. Who drowned in the Johnstown flood?

5. What is Joe Wiley's story about in chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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