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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 position does Cudjo hold within the Old Landmark Baptist Church?
(a) Deacon.
(b) Reverend.
(c) Priest.
(d) Sexton.

2. 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 original wife.
(c) The man.
(d) The pastor.

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

4. On which coast of Africa were the barracoons of Whydah located?
(a) South.
(b) West.
(c) East.
(d) North.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cudjo name as his first inclination regarding the likely reason for the chief's decision to summon boys over the age of 14?

2. 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?

3. What day and time does Cudjo name at the end of Chapter I when telling Hurston when she should return to his home?

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

5. How long after a woman's husband dies is she allowed to wed, according to Cudjo when talking about his former community in Africa?

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