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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. How many slaves were bought in the same transaction in which Cudjo was purchased?
(a) 130.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 320.

2. Who owned and sailed in command of the Clotilde ship at the time Cudjo was aboard it?
(a) Tim Meaher.
(b) Captain Foster.
(c) Burns Meaher.
(d) Jim Meaher.

3. What day and time does Cudjo name at the end of Chapter I when telling Hurston when she should return to his home?
(a) The following evening.
(b) A week from Thursday.
(c) The following morning.
(d) Independence Day.

4. What body of water borders the land on which the barracoons housing Cudjo and other slaves stood?
(a) The Gulf of Guinea.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Bay of Bengal.
(d) Lake Oswego.

5. Cudjo's house in Alabama is within sight distance of whose house?
(a) Cudjo's granddaughter.
(b) Cudjo's caretaker.
(c) Cudjo's sister-in-law.
(d) Cudjo's daughter-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Cudjo say had been the name of the god he had worshiped in Africa?

5. Cudjo says that the daughter of a very rich man back in his community in Africa would install each of his daughters in a fat-house for what period of time?

(see the answer key)

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