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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V-VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cudjo receives what object as a sign that he is on the path to manhood?
(a) A leopard whisker.
(b) A peacock feather.
(c) An elephant tusk.
(d) An eagle feather.

2. Hearing what word often brings tears to Cudjo's eyes within the interviews?
(a) Africa.
(b) Slave.
(c) Mother.
(d) Son.

3. Captain Jim Meaher tells Cudjo to take what action when the food on the plantation begins to run out due to the Civil War?
(a) Sell the family jewels.
(b) Kill the hogs.
(c) Destroy the wheat.
(d) Harvest the corn.

4. With whom does Cudjo share both his fruit and his obvious affections at the start of Chapter II?
(a) Cudjo's dog.
(b) Cudjo's closest neighbor.
(c) Cudjo's caretaker.
(d) The twin daughters of Cudjo's granddaughter.

5. By whom is the Introduction to Barracoon written?
(a) Cudjo.
(b) Deborah G. Plant.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Alice Walker.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. Cudjo's house in Alabama is within sight distance of whose house?

4. Cudjo states that a traitor from where had made a deal with the King of Dahomey?

5. Cudjo reports with horror that the Dahomey soldiers had removed what part of people's bodies before they were dead?

(see the answer key)

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