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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 sign does Hurston name as indicating that Cudjo is somewhere close by his house?
(a) His great-granddaughters are on the porch.
(b) There is a fire going in the fire pit.
(c) The front door is standing open.
(d) The front gate is unlocked.

2. What objects are required to be brought to the king once a leopard has been killed, according to Cudjo?
(a) The ears.
(b) The eyes.
(c) The whiskers.
(d) The tail and heart.

3. On what day of the sea voyage were the slaves finally brought up onto the deck so that they could "regain the use of their limbs" (11)?
(a) The 13th.
(b) The 8th.
(c) The 4th.
(d) The 21st.

4. At what time of day does Cudjo say the Dahomey had broken the Great Gate of Tokkoi?
(a) Daybreak.
(b) Noon.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Midnight.

5. What sound at the marketplace does Cudjo report liking?
(a) The sound of a horse's whinny.
(b) The sound of cooing doves.
(c) The sound of a train in the distance.
(d) The sound of women's bracelets jangling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward what object had Cudjo run just after his king had been killed before his very eyes?

2. Whom does Cudjo name as the agent responsible for finding a man wives to add to his family?

3. Cudjo states that if a person were found guilty of murder in his former community in Africa, then what consequence would have been levied upon that person?

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?

5. Who sells Cudjo to the white North American slavers?

(see the answer key)

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