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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. 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 morning.
(b) The following evening.
(c) A week from Thursday.
(d) Independence Day.

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

3. What is NOT listed by Cudjo among the tasks a man's wives would perform in order to help him get to sleep in Cudjo's former community in Africa?
(a) Singing a low lullaby.
(b) Fanning him to create a breeze.
(c) Cleaning his hands and toenails.
(d) Rubbing his head.

4. Cudjo's mother in Africa had given him what name?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Olaudah.
(c) Kossula.
(d) Cudjo.

5. At the time of the interviews, Cudjo was living in what town in Alabama?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Reform.
(c) Plateau.
(d) York.

Short Answer Questions

1. The owner of the Clotilde deceptively reported that the ship had been on a mission to retrieve what product?

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

3. In what year had Cudjo lost his wife?

4. The King of Dahomey at the time of Cudjo's capture had what name?

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

(see the answer key)

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