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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cudjo says that he had given each of his children what type of name because he and Seely "not furgit [their] home" (72)?
(a) African.
(b) American.
(c) Juju.
(d) Spiritual.

2. Who owned and sailed in command of the Clotilde ship at the time Cudjo was aboard it?
(a) Burns Meaher.
(b) Captain Foster.
(c) Jim Meaher.
(d) Tim Meaher.

3. What is the name of the church that Cudjo reports building with his community members in Africa Town?
(a) Southampton Methodist Church.
(b) Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church.
(c) Grace Lutheran Church.
(d) Old Landmark Baptist Church.

4. Cudjo tells Hurston that he remembers everything that has ever happened to him since he had been a youth of what age?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

5. For what reason does Cudjo say some of the other slaves on the Meaher plantation had made fun of him and his fellow Africans?
(a) For their earrings.
(b) For their African customs and speech.
(c) For their peacock feathers.
(d) For their dark skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How much money did the judge award Cudjo for the railroad's failure to blow a whistle or to ring a bell upon the train's approach?

3. Cudjo's king tells the King of Dahomey that he cannot give the King of Dahomey which objects, since they actually belong to the people?

4. Of what cause did Cudjo's lawyer in the railroad case die?

5. What does Cudjo say had been his father's name?

(see the answer key)

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