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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V-VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gift does Hurston bring to Cudjo the day he takes her on a tour of his gardens?
(a) A box of pineapples.
(b) A box of insect repellent powder.
(c) A box of rat poison.
(d) A box of toothpaste.

2. For how many days was Cudjo forced to stay in the place where his people's body parts were being displayed as signs of the King of Dahomey's victory?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

3. What is the name of Cudjo's king?
(a) King Equiano.
(b) King Akia'on.
(c) King Olaudah.
(d) King O'lai'm.

4. In what year had Cudjo lost his wife?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1913.

5. What weapon does Cudjo describe being used by the overseer at the Meahers' plantation?
(a) A mace.
(b) A gun.
(c) A whip.
(d) A knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Cudjo name as having decided murder cases within his former community in Africa?

2. The King of Dahomey, on whose behalf Cudjo was captured and sold into slavery, is said to have maintained an army of how many people?

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

4. On what day of the sea voyage were the slaves finally brought up onto the deck so that they could "regain the use of their limbs" (11)?

5. Cudjo states that if a person were found guilty of murder in his former community in Africa, then what consequence would have been levied upon that person?

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