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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 5,000.

2. For one year after a woman's husband dies, she is forbidden to take what action?
(a) Change her clothes.
(b) Comb her hair.
(c) Marry.
(d) Wash her face.

3. 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?
(a) Singing a low lullaby.
(b) Rubbing his head.
(c) Fanning him to create a breeze.
(d) Cleaning his hands and toenails.

4. In what year had Cudjo lost his wife?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1930.

5. Cudjo tells Hurston that he had been the son of which wife of his father's?
(a) The sixth wife.
(b) The chief wife.
(c) The second wife.
(d) The third wife.

6. The text states that the Dahoman year was split into two parts that included what two elements?
(a) Spring and summer.
(b) Marriages and funerals.
(c) Celebrations and mourning.
(d) Wars and festivals.

7. How many fully biologically-related younger siblings had Cudjo had?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

8. In what season does Hurston interview Cudjo for the first time within Barracoon's pages?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Autumn.

9. Cudjo's house in Alabama is within sight distance of whose house?
(a) Cudjo's granddaughter.
(b) Cudjo's daughter-in-law.
(c) Cudjo's sister-in-law.
(d) Cudjo's caretaker.

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

11. What does Cudjo say had been the name of the god he had worshiped in Africa?
(a) Olaudah.
(b) Chucha.
(c) Igbo.
(d) Alahua.

12. Hearing what word often brings tears to Cudjo's eyes within the interviews?
(a) Africa.
(b) Son.
(c) Slave.
(d) Mother.

13. The four men responsible for the deal that resulted in Cudjo's status as a slave included how many of the Meaher brothers?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

15. 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 21st.
(b) The 8th.
(c) The 4th.
(d) The 13th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What body of water borders the land on which the barracoons housing Cudjo and other slaves stood?

2. Whom does Cudjo name as having decided adultery cases within his former community in Africa?

3. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?

4. Hurston describes Cudjo as hustling his great-granddaughters off to play by using what type of "abuse" (25)?

5. What day and time does Cudjo name at the end of Chapter I when telling Hurston when she should return to his home?

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