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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 sign does Hurston name as indicating that Cudjo is somewhere close by his house?
(a) There is a fire going in the fire pit.
(b) His great-granddaughters are on the porch.
(c) The front gate is unlocked.
(d) The front door is standing open.

2. Cudjo reports with horror that the Dahomey soldiers had removed what part of people's bodies before they were dead?
(a) Their eyeballs.
(b) Their jawbones.
(c) Their ears.
(d) Their fingers.

3. Whom does Cudjo name as having decided murder cases within his former community in Africa?
(a) The king.
(b) The magistrate.
(c) The village chief.
(d) The murder victim's family members.

4. What is the penalty for killing a leopard and failing to bring the king its required body parts, according to Cudjo?
(a) Death.
(b) The loss of a wife.
(c) A hefty fine.
(d) 5 years in prison.

5. How long in total had the voyage to buy slaves taken the men on the Clotilde?
(a) 70.
(b) 30.
(c) 90.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. Captain Jim Meaher tells Cudjo to take what action when the food on the plantation begins to run out due to the Civil War?

2. Cudjo receives what object as a sign that he is on the path to manhood?

3. According to Cudjo, it had been the custom for wives of a deceased husband to take what action immediately upon the man's death?

4. How many plantations had the Meaher family owned together?

5. What kind of beverage was drunk by the mourners of Cudjo's grandfather?

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