Which author described God as the 'Great Stuffer of Bags'?

• A. Ernest Hemingway
• B. Zora Neale Hurston
• C. John Steinbeck
• D. E.B. White

Answer: (B)

The idea being tested is how authors use religious language and vernacular imagery to convey spirituality. Zora Neale Hurston is known for weaving African American folk speech, humor, and spiritual life into her writing, rendering the divine in intimate, everyday terms. Describing God as the “Great Stuffer of Bags” fits her method: it presents the divine as a practical, provident presence who fills life’s “bag” with what people need, using vivid, down-to-earth imagery rather than abstract theology. This kind of characterization—God experienced through ordinary objects, sayings, and community wisdom—is a hallmark of Hurston’s folklore-informed voice, seen across her ethnographic work and fiction. The other authors operate in different tonal registers and repertoires of religious language, not the same vernacular, folkloric portrayal that Hurston employs. So the attribution aligns with Hurston’s distinctive approach and voice.