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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hurston describes Cudjo as hustling his great-granddaughters off to play by using what type of "abuse" (25)?
(a) Affectionate.
(b) Playful.
(c) Mild.
(d) Violent.

2. What does Cudjo say had been his mother's name?
(a) U-no-noo-pay.
(b) O-lo-loo-ay.
(c) Ny-fond-lo-loo.
(d) A-la-loo-to.

3. What crop does Cudjo say he plants only for the benefit of his twin great-granddaughters?
(a) Pineapple.
(b) Sweet potatoes.
(c) Apples.
(d) Sugar cane.

4. What is NOT named among the fruits for which Cudjo and his sibings would search the woods during his childhood?
(a) Mango.
(b) Pineapple.
(c) Avocado.
(d) Banana.

5. The owner of the Clotilde deceptively reported that the ship had been on a mission to retrieve what product?
(a) Opium.
(b) Sugar cane.
(c) Red palm oil.
(d) Slaves.

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

7. Cudjo says that the daughter of a very rich man back in his community in Africa would install each of his daughters in a fat-house for what period of time?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 100 days.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 2 years.

8. How many slaves were bought in the same transaction in which Cudjo was purchased?
(a) 130.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 320.

9. At what time does Hurston arrive at Cudjo's house at the start of Chapter II?
(a) Noon.
(b) 8 o'clock in the morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 7 o'clock in the evening.

10. Whom does Cudjo name as having decided adultery cases within his former community in Africa?
(a) The magistrate.
(b) The king.
(c) The village chief.
(d) The spouse of the accused.

11. Cudjo states that he has been "in Americky soil since" (19) what year?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1863.

12. 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 4th.
(b) The 21st.
(c) The 13th.
(d) The 8th.

13. How many fully biologically-related older siblings had Cudjo had?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

14. In what month and year did Zora Neale Hurston first meet Cudjo?
(a) September of 1931.
(b) December of 1935.
(c) July of 1927.
(d) February of 1921.

15. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?
(a) The pastor.
(b) The man.
(c) The next-to-latest wife to be wed.
(d) The original wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cudjo, it had been the custom for wives of a deceased husband to take what action immediately upon the man's death?

2. From what type of implement does Cudjo always drink his well water?

3. For one year after a woman's husband dies, she is forbidden to take what action?

4. What are the names of Cudjo's twin great-granddaughters?

5. The King of Dahomey, on whose behalf Cudjo was captured and sold into slavery, is said to have maintained an army of how many people?

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