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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many initiation rites does Cudjo report he had completed before leaving Africa?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

2. Cudjo's mother in Africa had given him what name?
(a) Olaudah.
(b) Cudjo.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Kossula.

3. What is NOT named among the fruits for which Cudjo and his sibings would search the woods during his childhood?
(a) Mango.
(b) Avocado.
(c) Pineapple.
(d) Banana.

4. Cudjo says that the daughter of a very rich man back in his community in Africa would install each of his daughters in a fat-house for what period of time?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 100 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 years.

5. Cudjo describes himself as being how old when his grandfather had died?
(a) A little boy.
(b) A teenager.
(c) A grown man.
(d) A baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owned and sailed in command of the Clotilde ship at the time Cudjo was aboard it?

2. How long after a woman's husband dies is she allowed to wed, according to Cudjo when talking about his former community in Africa?

3. How many fully biologically-related younger siblings had Cudjo had?

4. At the time of the interviews, Cudjo was living in what town in Alabama?

5. Hurston describes Cudjo as hustling his great-granddaughters off to play by using what type of "abuse" (25)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Preface, Hurston states her reasons for faithfully representing Cudjo's story "without the intrusion of interpretation" (3). What does she mean?

2. How does Hurston distinguish between the two types of gifts she brings to Cudjo at the start of Chapter IV and why does she make this distinction?

3. What major event happens within Cudjo's family in the story he tells at the start of Chapter III?

4. At what age does Cudjo describe leaving Africa, and what does he say about the number of initiation rites he had completed by that time?

5. After Cudjo tells Hurston about his grandfather, what happens to make Hurston cut their visit short for the day?

6. Cudjo discusses a particular practice undertaken by rich men's daughters in his former community in Africa. What is that practice he describes?

7. What is Cudjo's reaction when Hurston calls him Kossula?

8. Explain the customs followed by the wives of a deceased man in Cudjo's former African community.

9. In the story Cudjo tells about a murderer in his African village, what penalty is enacted after the accused is found guilty?

10. What is the significance of the year 1859 in Cudjo's life?

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