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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Chapter I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The well from which Cudjo draws his water at his Alabama home lies between two rows of what type of crop?
(a) Carrots.
(b) Pole-beans.
(c) Leeks.
(d) Potatoes.

2. The owner of the Clotilde deceptively reported that the ship had been on a mission to retrieve what product?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Red palm oil.
(c) Opium.
(d) Sugar cane.

3. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?
(a) The man.
(b) The next-to-latest wife to be wed.
(c) The pastor.
(d) The original wife.

4. Whom does Cudjo name as the agent responsible for finding a man wives to add to his family?
(a) A matchmaker.
(b) The man himself.
(c) The man's first wife.
(d) The man's mother.

5. By whom is the Introduction to Barracoon written?
(a) Cudjo.
(b) Deborah G. Plant.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owned and sailed in command of the Clotilde ship at the time Cudjo was aboard it?

2. Hearing what word often brings tears to Cudjo's eyes within the interviews?

3. In what month and year did Zora Neale Hurston first meet Cudjo?

4. Cudjo's mother in Africa had given him what name?

5. In what season does Hurston interview Cudjo for the first time within Barracoon's pages?

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