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Zora Neale HurstonA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these Teaching Materials to assess comprehension and facilitate analysis of a challenging text.
Reading-check questions can be used after students read chapter sets independently or as a group. Reading-check, reading comprehension, multiple-choice, and/or short-answer questions can be used as formative assessment tools as readers proceed through the book unit, or as summative assessment tools after the completion of the chapter set or book. Use the questions to review aloud after reading multiple chapter sets, or after completing the book in preparation for the unit test.
Questions can also be utilized in lesson planning and unit design.
Use questions as:
CHAPTERS 1-4
READING CHECK
1. What is the name of the all-Black town to which Janie returns at the start the novel?
2. What is the name of Janie’s husband who just died?
3. To which character does Janie tell her story?
4. Who is Janie’s father?
5. Who is Logan Killicks?
6. What happens to Nanny a month after Janie reveals her marriage is loveless?
7. Which character takes Janie to Eatonville at the end of Chapter 4?
QUIZ
1. What scandal do Janie’s neighbors discuss at the start of the novel?
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