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

2. What is the man waiting for at the end of Larkins White's story?
(a) The traces to melt.
(b) The horse to wake up.
(c) His friend to pick him up.
(d) The traces to dry.

3. What is Dr. Samuel Jenkins' clientele like?
(a) Black and upper-class.
(b) White and upper-class.
(c) White and poor.
(d) Asian and poor.

4. What is hoodoo founded on?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) The beliefs on the Sioux indians.
(c) Religion.
(d) Genes.

5. When was Marie Leveau born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the man go to find in Larkins White's story to carry home all of his belongings?

3. What does Hurston say she learns about in Chapter 10?

4. Who is Eulalia?

5. What, according to Hurston, is the common link between those that practice Hoodoo?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Mark C. Ford ?

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

4. 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?

5. Describe Hurston's initiation under Turner.

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

7. Describe Hurston's final story in Chapter 7 about the rat and the cat.

8. Explain how "butterflies" came to be according to Floyd Thomas.

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

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

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