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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 are the names of Cudjo's twin great-granddaughters?
(a) Nancy and Nelda.
(b) Katie and Kimberly.
(c) Teresa and Taylor.
(d) Mary and Martha.

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

3. When remonstrating Hurston for not recognizing the importance of ancestors' stories, Cudjo asks her where the house is located in which the what is the leader?
(a) Mouse.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Leopard.
(d) Lion.

4. According to Cudjo, it had been the custom for wives of a deceased husband to take what action immediately upon the man's death?
(a) Shave their heads.
(b) Whitewash their homes.
(c) Pack to move to fat-houses.
(d) Give all of their money to the king.

5. The King of Dahomey, on whose behalf Cudjo was captured and sold into slavery, is said to have maintained an army of how many people?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 3,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Cudjo's mother in Africa had given him what name?

3. With whom does Cudjo share both his fruit and his obvious affections at the start of Chapter II?

4. How many initiation rites does Cudjo report he had completed before leaving Africa?

5. What type of fruit does Hurston bring to Cudjo at the start of Chapter II?

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