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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Zora's mother give in to Hurston?

2. In Eatonville, what did a proud husband do?

3. How did Zora's mother know the white man who comes to her?

4. Whom did Zora decide she wanted to marry when she grew up?

5. Why did Zora originally have to leave school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the cultural significance of "Joe Clark's Porch"?

2. Why did John Hurston remarry?

3. Why wouldn't Zora return to her brother and his wife?

4. Why did the actors of Gilbert and Sullivan tease Zora? What was her relationship with them?

5. Why was Zora fired from her cleaning/nanny job? What is the irony of the reasons they fired her?

6. Was Zora supported in her academic determination and abilities?

7. Why did Zora's family object to her mother's agreement to marry John Hurston?

8. How did spite influence Zora's family? How strong was this spite?

9. How were the people of Eatonville able to know if a man was cheating on his wife?

10. In "School Again," how was Zora able to overcome her struggles?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Zora often reverts back to her youthful perspective to analyze situations. Discuss Zora's perception. What do we learn about Zora by seeing her youth and adulthood side by side?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the pairing of Zora's early adulthood and her nature and how Zora can orchestrate all the elements of herself to her detriment or her favor.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impact of the stepmother on the family and how the stepmother's impact affected Zora's life with her family in the long term. What effect did the absence of her family have on her?

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