Zora Neale Hurston Biography Quiz

What is the author’s purpose for writing this biography about Zora Neale Hurston?

• To persuade the reader to read Hurston’s plays

• To describe Hurston’s home life while growing up

• To inform the reader about Hurston’s life and works

• To entertain the reader before reading Hurston’s plays

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Based upon the information given in paragraph 2, the reader can assume that:

• Hurston was a talented and respected writer.

• There was a discrepancy about her birth date.

• Hurston didn’t want anyone to know where she grew up.

• The 1900 census records are inaccurate.

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Which of the following happened at the same time that Hurston wrote many of her most well- known works?

• Hurston was accused of molesting a ten-year-old boy.

• Hurston moved to Africa.

• The Harlem Renaissance was in its prime.

• Huston met her first husband, Herbert Sheen.

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In which paragraph would it be most appropriate to insert information about Hurston’s connection with Mrs. Rufus Osgood, a white patron who funded part of Hurston’s ethnographic work?

• paragraph 1 or 5

• paragraph 2 or 6

• paragraph 3 or 5

• paragraph 4 or 7

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Read the following sentence: Hurston died at the home, penniless and nameless, on January 28, 1960.

Which word or words would best replace the underlined word in the sentence above to make the sentence more precise?

• unknown

• memorialized

• demoralized

• revered

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Which of the following would be least likely to fit in the article?

• A paragraph highlighting Alice Walker’s writings.

• A paragraph about the history of Florida.

• A paragraph about Hurston’s work in college.

• A paragraph about the Harlem Renaissance and its most prolific and influential writers.

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Which of the following questions would be most appropriate to ask Hurston if you were a reporter who had been granted an interview with her?

• How has your own life influenced the development of the characters in your writings?

• Have you ever met Langston Hughes?

• Why did you file for divorce from your second husband within a year of your marriage?

• What is it like being poor?

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Based upon the information in this article, what do you think the word prolific means (from paragraph 1)?

• wealthy

• productive

• talented

• caustic

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