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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weapon does Cudjo describe being used by the overseer at the Meahers' plantation?
(a) A knife.
(b) A mace.
(c) A gun.
(d) A whip.

2. Cudjo receives what object as a sign that he is on the path to manhood?
(a) An elephant tusk.
(b) A peacock feather.
(c) A leopard whisker.
(d) An eagle feather.

3. How had Africa Town come to have a school?
(a) The citizens built the schoolhouse and then asked the county to send a teacher.
(b) An old warehouse was renovated and used as a school.
(c) The teacher turned her own house into a makeshift schoolhouse.
(d) The citizens applied for a government grant and were awarded the money to build a school.

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

5. How many men arrive from Dahomey and ask Cudjo to speak with Cudjo's king?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 13.
(d) 12.

6. 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?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $650.
(d) $7,500.

7. Cudjo's son Cudjo was shot and killed by whom?
(a) A plantation owner.
(b) A black sheriff.
(c) A white sheriff.
(d) A rum runner.

8. After Cudjo finishes telling Hurston about his people's body parts being displayed by the King of Dahomey, she describes his face as what type of mask?
(a) A horror mask.
(b) A mask of stone.
(c) A transparent mask.
(d) An opaque mask.

9. 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) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

10. Cudjo describes seeing what body parts of his community members being displayed as signs of the King of Dahomey's victory?
(a) Arms.
(b) Fingers.
(c) Feet.
(d) Heads.

11. What object does Cudjo report creating after he had been freed?
(a) A key.
(b) An identification card.
(c) A career in animal husbandry.
(d) A drum.

12. Cudjo's king tells the King of Dahomey that he cannot give the King of Dahomey which objects, since they actually belong to the people?
(a) Laws.
(b) Crops.
(c) Coins.
(d) Property rights.

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

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

15. How much money did Cudjo actually receive as a result of winning his case against the railroad?
(a) $650.
(b) $1,500.
(c) None.
(d) $5,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter VII?

2. What type of creature does Cudjo use to explain his boys' tendency to get into fights?

3. Which group does Cudjo name as the one that "make de war so dey free us" (60)?

4. For what reason does Cudjo say some of the other slaves on the Meaher plantation had made fun of him and his fellow Africans?

5. How much money did Cudjo's lawyer seek from the railroad for their role in Cudjo's accident with the train?

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