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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters II-IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many initiation rites does Cudjo report he had completed before leaving Africa?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. What objects are required to be brought to the king once a leopard has been killed, according to Cudjo?
(a) The ears.
(b) The tail and heart.
(c) The eyes.
(d) The whiskers.

3. 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) 2 years.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 100 days.

4. What does Cudjo say had been his mother's name?
(a) Ny-fond-lo-loo.
(b) A-la-loo-to.
(c) O-lo-loo-ay.
(d) U-no-noo-pay.

5. The first time Hurston visits Cudjo within Chapter II, what do they end up doing instead of Cudjo telling Hurston about himself?
(a) Cudjo gives Hurston a tour of his gardens.
(b) Cudjo asks Hurston to help him repair a rip in his blanket.
(c) Hurston asks Cudjo to tell her instead about his children.
(d) Cudjo makes a pot of stew and they eat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The well from which Cudjo draws his water at his Alabama home lies between two rows of what type of crop?

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

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

5. According to Cudjo, it had been the custom for wives of a deceased husband to take what action immediately upon the man's death?

(see the answer key)

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