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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) Poetry.
(c) The mind.
(d) The heart.

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

3. How does Hurston get Luke Tuner to speak about Marie Leveau?
(a) She "picks his noggin."
(b) She "sweet as sugar" to him.
(c) She "dickers" with him.
(d) She "dances the jig" with him.

4. In Chapter 9, what threat does the Quarter Boss make?
(a) He will leave leave town.
(b) He will fine everyone in the town.
(c) He will throw troublemakers in jail.
(d) He will thrash anyone who talks back to him.

5. What, according to Hurston, is the common link between those that practice Hoodoo?
(a) Chicken scraps.
(b) The book of Hoodoo.
(c) Marie Leveau.
(d) Marie Antoinette.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a swamper?

2. Chapter 9 begins in _____________.

3. What do people make drinks out of at the joint?

4. In the story about firing the gun out the doorway, what is the cause of the strange noise?

5. Who is Luke Turner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Luke Turner, and how does he treat Hurston upon meeting her? How does Hurston get Luke Turner to help her?

2. Who is Mark C. Ford ?

3. What happens at the juke joint in Chapter 9? How is Big Sweet involved?

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

5. Describe Hurston's initiation under Turner.

6. Who is Anatol Pierre? Describe some of Hurston's experiences with this man.

7. 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?

8. Describe the life of Marie Leveau.

9. Why do people say "unh-hunh" ?

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

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