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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 does Charlie say is the reason for why religions divide?
(a) Water.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Rivers.

2. 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.

3. 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 too busy
(c) He is busy cleaning harps.
(d) She is busy watching her family.

4. Who is the rude person that the person who died in Johnstown flood encounters?
(a) Noah.
(b) Henry.
(c) Mary.
(d) God.

5. What happened to the man in the story in Chapter 4 that was dipped in the river?
(a) "He played the yarn fiddle."
(b) He was "skimmed ugly for six months."
(c) "He swam with the fishes."
(d) He was "dunked like a skunk."

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are at the "toe party" when Hurston arrives?

2. Who is the person that is traveling in this book?

3. What story does Gold tell in Chapter 2?

4. Why was the first slave not punished for cussing out the master in Chapter 5?

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

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