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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cudjo and Seely form an unofficial marriage with one another how long after they agree to wed?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 1 month.

2. What is the title of Chapter VII?
(a) Noplace.
(b) Home.
(c) Barracoon.
(d) Slavery.

3. For how many years had Cudjo lived as a slave of the Meahers?
(a) Over 18 years.
(b) Over 5 years.
(c) Over 12 years.
(d) Over 2 years.

4. On what date does Cudjo say he was freed from slavery?
(a) April 12, 1865.
(b) February 19, 1863.
(c) November 16, 1879.
(d) January 30, 1867.

5. The Dahomey soldiers tell Cudjo that they cannot listen to his cries since they have only been sent to perform what task for the King of Dahomey?
(a) Gather intelligence in preparation for warfare.
(b) Hunt slaves to sell.
(c) Help richer men than he.
(d) Murder the citizens of Cudjo's community.

6. What is NOT an insult Cudjo names as being one thrown at his children by black people born in America?
(a) They are told that their skin is too dark.
(b) They are called cannibals.
(c) They are accused to being related to monkeys.
(d) They are called savages.

7. What item do Cudjo and his male friends tell the women that they must eschew in order to save up money?
(a) Big houses.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Opium.
(d) Fine clothes.

8. Cudjo states that a traitor from where had made a deal with the King of Dahomey?
(a) Makanfenkpar.
(b) Tenge.
(c) Senegal.
(d) Tokkoi.

9. Which two people does Cudjo name when saying who he had thought should be responsible for returning him to Africa?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston and Gumpa.
(b) Captain Meaher and Captain Foster.
(c) President Lincoln and the U.S. Secretary of State.
(d) The King of Dahomey and Captain Foster.

10. How many names does Cudjo say it is customary for native Africans to give their children who are born on "de Americky soil" (72)?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

12. What does Cudjo report seeing immediately after his king had said that he would not give up his power to join with the King of Dahomey?
(a) His own king being drowned.
(b) His own king's head being cut off.
(c) His own king being tossed from a high cliff.
(d) His own king being burned at the stake.

13. At what age does Cudjo report that his daughter Seely had fallen ill and died?
(a) 9.
(b) 15.
(c) 21.
(d) 6.

14. Who is chosen as the head of the community Cudjo and the other freed slaves form after their emancipation, a community they call Africa Town?
(a) Cudjo.
(b) Mary.
(c) Gumpa.
(d) Jim.

15. At what time of day does Cudjo become a slave to the Dahomey people?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Noon.
(d) Midnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the church that Cudjo reports building with his community members in Africa Town?

2. How much money did the judge award Cudjo for the railroad's failure to blow a whistle or to ring a bell upon the train's approach?

3. How many plantations had the Meaher family owned together?

4. For how long was Cudjo enslaved in Alabama?

5. At the end of Chapter VIII, Cudjo asks that Hurston take him to buy what item the following day?

(see the answer keys)

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