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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. About whom is Cudjo trying to tell Hurston when she breaks in, telling Cudjo that she wants to hear more about his own life?
(a) Cudjo's grandfather.
(b) Cudjo's son.
(c) Cudjo's father.
(d) Cudjo's sister.

2. 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 original wife.
(c) The next-to-latest wife to be wed.
(d) The pastor.

3. What does Cudjo say had been the name of the god he had worshiped in Africa?
(a) Alahua.
(b) Igbo.
(c) Olaudah.
(d) Chucha.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sign does Hurston name as indicating that Cudjo is somewhere close by his house?

2. Upon leaving Cudjo at the end of Chapter I, Hurston describes him as having his "bare feet exposed" (23) to a cloud composed of what types of insects?

3. Cudjo's house in Alabama is within sight distance of whose house?

4. At the time of the interviews, Cudjo was living in what town in Alabama?

5. Who sells Cudjo to the white North American slavers?

(see the answer key)

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