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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Folk Tales, Chapters 4 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stories do the men tell on the way to work in Chapter 4?
(a) About birds.
(b) About pretty people.
(c) About ugly people.
(d) About working in an office.

2. In Chapter 4, what does Hurston initially think of the people in the city where she stops?
(a) She hates them.
(b) She does not trust them.
(c) She likes them.
(d) She trusts them.

3. What is the fight that breaks out in Chapter 2 about?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Money.
(c) Politics.
(d) Skin color.

4. What happens when Hurston arrives at Pine Mill?
(a) No one asks her to dance.
(b) The people elect her as mayor.
(c) Everyone asks her to dance.
(d) She goes to work.

5. Who is the rude person that the person who died in Johnstown flood encounters?
(a) God.
(b) Mary.
(c) Noah.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what does Hurston claim that she does not want to do to the reader?

2. In what state does the author spend most of her time collecting stories?

3. Why, in Chapter 4, is the men's workday canceled?

4. Why can't John let the animal he finds in the field go?

5. Where does the person go after dying in the Johnstown flood?

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