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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of gun does Cudjo report seeing the Dahomeys carrying during the raid?
(a) Cuban guns.
(b) French guns.
(c) German guns.
(d) Spanish guns.

2. Cudjo describes seeing what body parts of his community members being displayed as signs of the King of Dahomey's victory?
(a) Fingers.
(b) Heads.
(c) Arms.
(d) Feet.

3. Which group does Cudjo name as the one that "make de war so dey free us" (60)?
(a) Folks in Africa.
(b) Folks in the South.
(c) Folks in the West.
(d) Folks in the North.

4. When Hurston offers to help Cudjo, he says that he wants her to take him to what location?
(a) Reform.
(b) Selma.
(c) Mobile.
(d) Macon.

5. Who is chosen as the head of the community Cudjo and the other freed slaves form after their emancipation, a community they call Africa Town?
(a) Cudjo.
(b) Gumpa.
(c) Jim.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long was Cudjo enslaved in Alabama?

2. Of what cause did Cudjo's lawyer in the railroad case die?

3. Whom does Cudjo describe as "de best friend de Afficans got" (67)?

4. Cudjo's son Cudjo was shot and killed by whom?

5. What is NOT named among the fruits for which Cudjo and his sibings would search the woods during his childhood?

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