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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. How did Zora feel about the Roosevelts?

2. What caused Zora to leave Polk?

3. When did Zora begin to discuss her love life in her book?

4. For what was Leon Walter Young famous?

5. What is uncommon amongst whites and Yankees in Zora's opinion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did Zora find that there is a quintessential black person? A white person?

2. What opportunity did Nassau afford Zora?

3. What was Zora's initial failure in her folktale project? How was this received?

4. Where did Zora gain her lingual abilities? How did these abilities aid her and her father's careers?

5. What was special about John Hurston's portrait of hell?

6. How does Zora address "the race problem" in her work? Why does she approach it as she does?

7. Why did Zora have to flee Polk County?

8. How are Big Sweet and Zora similar?

9. How did the miners in Polk County get a history lesson?

10. In Zora's early romantic life, what was her nature? Why was she this way?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the importance of Zora's time at Gilbert and Sullivan and the effect it has on her. What do we learn about her from it?

Essay Topic 2

Zora is well known for her vivid use of language. Discuss the effect of Zora's language in writing on our perception of Zora and events.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Zora's parents' relationship. How did this environment impact her life? How does this context clarify her approach to future situations we've seen her in?

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