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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children does Cudjo report having had with his wife Seely?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

2. Whom does Cudjo describe as "de best friend de Afficans got" (67)?
(a) Free Jasper.
(b) Free William.
(c) Free George.
(d) Free Jeffrey.

3. How had Africa Town come to have a school?
(a) The citizens applied for a government grant and were awarded the money to build a school.
(b) An old warehouse was renovated and used as a school.
(c) The citizens built the schoolhouse and then asked the county to send a teacher.
(d) The teacher turned her own house into a makeshift schoolhouse.

4. The Dahomey soldiers tell Cudjo that they cannot listen to his cries since they have only been sent to perform what task for the King of Dahomey?
(a) Gather intelligence in preparation for warfare.
(b) Help richer men than he.
(c) Murder the citizens of Cudjo's community.
(d) Hunt slaves to sell.

5. What item do Cudjo and his male friends tell the women that they must eschew in order to save up money?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Big houses.
(c) Opium.
(d) Fine clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does Cudjo report taking the entire first night of his captivity?

2. When Hurston offers to help Cudjo, he says that he wants her to take him to what location?

3. Cudjo reports that the "colored folks" of what classification had picked on native Africans, calling them "ig'nant savage[s]" (68)?

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

5. How many men arrive from Dahomey and ask Cudjo to speak with Cudjo's king?

(see the answer key)

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