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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item do Cudjo and his male friends tell the women that they must eschew in order to save up money?
(a) Big houses.
(b) Opium.
(c) Fine clothes.
(d) Tobacco.

2. Who sells Cudjo to the white North American slavers?
(a) Olaudah Equiano.
(b) The King of Dahomey.
(c) Ben Meaher.
(d) Captain Foster.

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

4. What gift does Hurston bring to Cudjo the day he takes her on a tour of his gardens?
(a) A box of insect repellent powder.
(b) A box of pineapples.
(c) A box of rat poison.
(d) A box of toothpaste.

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 makes a pot of stew and they eat.
(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 gives Hurston a tour of his gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter IX exhibits what title?

2. Cudjo describes himself as being how old when his grandfather had died?

3. In what year had Cudjo lost his wife?

4. For how long was Cudjo in bed after his train accident?

5. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?

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