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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. What type of gun does Cudjo report seeing the Dahomeys carrying during the raid?
(a) French guns.
(b) Spanish guns.
(c) Cuban guns.
(d) German guns.

2. What reason does Cudjo provide for not wanting to "mixee wid de other folks" (68) at an existing church?
(a) Integrated churches were likely to be dangerous places.
(b) White people who had owned slaves belonged to the existing church.
(c) Black people who had been born in America mercilessly made fun of Cudjo and his friends.
(d) A new church built by the people of Africa Town would have the correct juju.

3. What is Cudjo's first-born son's American name?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Aleck.
(c) David.
(d) Johnny.

4. What type of creature does Cudjo use to explain his boys' tendency to get into fights?
(a) Otter.
(b) Wolverine.
(c) Muskrat.
(d) Snake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men arrive from Dahomey and ask Cudjo to speak with Cudjo's king?

2. Who wrote Historic Sketches of the South, from which Hurston borrowed heavily when she wrote a particular article about Cudjo?

3. What type of fruit does Hurston bring to Cudjo at the start of Chapter II?

4. What is NOT named among the fruits for which Cudjo and his sibings would search the woods during his childhood?

5. At what time of day does Cudjo become a slave to the Dahomey people?

(see the answer key)

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