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

2. What is NOT a sound Cudjo describes hearing when he was still in bed on the date when the Dahomey raided the kingdom in which Cudjo resided?
(a) Soldiers breaking the gate.
(b) Male soldiers yelling.
(c) Female soldiers yelling.
(d) Cannons firing.

3. How many meals per day does a young woman eat when residing in a fat-house?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

4. Whom does Cudjo name as having decided adultery cases within his former community in Africa?
(a) The village chief.
(b) The spouse of the accused.
(c) The magistrate.
(d) The king.

5. Who sells Cudjo to the white North American slavers?
(a) The King of Dahomey.
(b) Olaudah Equiano.
(c) Ben Meaher.
(d) Captain Foster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Cudjo give Hurston at the end of Chapter II when he wants Hurston to leave?

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. Whom does Cudjo name as the agent responsible for finding a man wives to add to his family?

4. Cudjo states that a traitor from where had made a deal with the King of Dahomey?

5. What does Cudjo say had been his father's name?

(see the answer key)

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