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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eulalia's specialty?
(a) Cooking meals.
(b) The mind.
(c) The heart.
(d) Poetry.

2. What does Hurston say she learns about in Chapter 10?
(a) Local cuisine.
(b) Children's games.
(c) Football.
(d) Boxing.

3. What does the man in Larkins White's story smother?
(a) His steak with gravy.
(b) Partridges.
(c) His children with kisses.
(d) His mother.

4. What does Luke Turner drop along the highway to prevent a man from returning to town?
(a) Powder.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Nails.
(d) Chickens.

5. What does Hurston want from Luke Turner?
(a) For him to teach her.
(b) A place to live.
(c) A child.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Luke Turner have to live?

2. What is Dr. Samuel Jenkins' clientele like?

3. What does it mean if it rains at a funeral?

4. Why does Marie Leveau plan a feast on St. John's Eve?

5. How many initiations has Hurston gone through by the time she meets Luke Turner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what it means if it rains at a funeral?

2. Who is Dr. Samuel Jenkins? What is his clientele like? Why do you think he chooses to work with these people?

3. Who saves Hurston from the fight at the wedding and how?

4. Why does Hurston decide to move on from studying black folklore to Hoodoo?

5. Describe the law over alcohol Hurston describes in Chapter 9. How is alcohol made?

6. In Chapter 7, does there appear to be an order to the stories Hurston tells? If so, what is the order? If not, why is there no order?

7. How does the man kill four different animals with one bullet in Chapter 7?

8. How does Hurston describe the creation of the world in Chapter 1?

9. What is ironic about the story where a slave is afraid to shoot his master's gun uphill?

10. Describe the life of Marie Leveau.

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