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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What crop does Cudjo say he plants only for the benefit of his twin great-granddaughters?
(a) Pineapple.
(b) Apples.
(c) Sugar cane.
(d) Sweet potatoes.

3. 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 next-to-latest wife to be wed.
(b) The man.
(c) The pastor.
(d) The original wife.

4. How long after a woman's husband dies is she allowed to wed, according to Cudjo when talking about his former community in Africa?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) Never.

5. Whom does Cudjo name as having decided murder cases within his former community in Africa?
(a) The murder victim's family members.
(b) The king.
(c) The village chief.
(d) The magistrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cudjo say had been his mother's name?

2. Cudjo tells Hurston that he remembers everything that has ever happened to him since he had been a youth of what age?

3. How many fully biologically-related younger siblings had Cudjo had?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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