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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How to the men react to the new person in town at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) They all dance.
(b) They question the person.
(c) They run away screaming.
(d) Some watch, some leave.

2. In what city does Hurston stop in Chapter 4?
(a) Elkson.
(b) Mobile.
(c) Everglade City.
(d) Loughma.

3. Why was the second slave beaten for cussing at the master in Joe Wiley's story?
(a) He did it in French.
(b) He did it to his face.
(c) He hit the master.
(d) He used incorrect grammar.

4. What occasionally happens at a "toe party" when a man is disappointed with his partner?
(a) He slaps her.
(b) He runs.
(c) He screams.
(d) He kisses her.

5. How many people are at the "toe party" when Hurston arrives?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) Several.
(d) A hundred.

6. Whom does John trick into holding the animal in the field?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A student.
(c) A friend.
(d) His master.

7. Why does Hurston go to Pine Mill?
(a) To work.
(b) To meet her mother.
(c) For a dance.
(d) To hear a story.

8. Who is Ellis?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) A baker.
(c) A priest.
(d) Hurston's friend's husband.

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

10. Why does Hurston develop her initial opinion of the townspeople in Chapter 4?
(a) They offer her a hot meal.
(b) The spit on her.
(c) They are on the run from the law.
(d) They wash her clothes.

11. What do the men hear in Chapter 6 on their way to the "jook joint"?
(a) Voices.
(b) An accident.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Fighting.

12. What does Hurston claim the Sheriff will do to the woman who killed five men?
(a) Scold her.
(b) Reward her.
(c) Arrest her.
(d) Shoot her.

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

14. When does a "toe party" really start to get wild?
(a) When the people from Eatonville arrive.
(b) At 9 p.m.
(c) After appetizers.
(d) When the band starts playing.

15. What does "Big Moose done come down from de mountain" mean?
(a) Death is coming.
(b) Winter is here.
(c) Important things will happen.
(d) An earthquake is coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the man in the story in Chapter 4 that was dipped in the river?

2. In Chapter 4, who is John?

3. Why, in Chapter 4, is the men's workday canceled?

4. Why does Hurston want to go to a new location at the end of Chapter 3?

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

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