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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. 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?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 100 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 years.

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

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

5. The text states that the Dahoman year was split into two parts that included what two elements?
(a) Spring and summer.
(b) Marriages and funerals.
(c) Wars and festivals.
(d) Celebrations and mourning.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the sea voyage were the slaves finally brought up onto the deck so that they could "regain the use of their limbs" (11)?

2. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?

3. What reason does Cudjo give Hurston at the end of Chapter II when he wants Hurston to leave?

4. How long in total had the voyage to buy slaves taken the men on the Clotilde?

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

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