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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XI and XII.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Cudjo remarks that "de wife she de" what "to de man's soul" (91)?
(a) Key.
(b) Window.
(c) Reflection.
(d) Eyes.

3. How many men came to Cudjo's house to tell him that his son David had been killed?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

5. The Afterword describes Cudjo's role as being "in the tradition of the" what "of his West African homeland" (117)?
(a) Griot.
(b) Hero.
(c) Poet.
(d) Trickster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cudjo's son Cudjo was shot and killed by whom?

2. How much money did Cudjo actually receive as a result of winning his case against the railroad?

3. Within a piece of Hurston's narration toward the end of the book, she says she had spent what amount of time with Cudjo?

4. Cudjo receives what object as a sign that he is on the path to manhood?

5. 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?

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