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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound at the marketplace does Cudjo report liking?
(a) The sound of a horse's whinny.
(b) The sound of cooing doves.
(c) The sound of a train in the distance.
(d) The sound of women's bracelets jangling.

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

3. What action does Cudjo tell Hurston he always has to take on Saturdays?
(a) He has to weed in his gardens.
(b) He has to cook dinner for his family.
(c) He has to clean the church.
(d) He has to take the grandchildren to the park.

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

5. When Hurston offers to help Cudjo and he accepts, what items does he buy in the location to which she takes him?
(a) Turnip seeds.
(b) Safety pins.
(c) Shovels.
(d) Bags of fertilizer.

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

7. Which group does Cudjo name as the one that "make de war so dey free us" (60)?
(a) Folks in the South.
(b) Folks in Africa.
(c) Folks in the North.
(d) Folks in the West.

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

9. 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) Help richer men than he.
(b) Hunt slaves to sell.
(c) Gather intelligence in preparation for warfare.
(d) Murder the citizens of Cudjo's community.

10. What position had the new head of Africa Town held back in Africa?
(a) Chief.
(b) King.
(c) Shaman.
(d) Nobleman.

11. Captain Jim Meaher tells Cudjo to take what action when the food on the plantation begins to run out due to the Civil War?
(a) Destroy the wheat.
(b) Harvest the corn.
(c) Kill the hogs.
(d) Sell the family jewels.

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) Coins.
(b) Laws.
(c) Property rights.
(d) Crops.

13. Cudjo says that he had given each of his children what type of name because he and Seely "not furgit [their] home" (72)?
(a) African.
(b) American.
(c) Juju.
(d) Spiritual.

14. Cudjo's king is known throughout Africa as what part of the leopard?
(a) The Tooth of the Leopard.
(b) The Claw of the Leopard.
(c) The Mouth of the Leopard.
(d) The Whisker of the Leopard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How had Africa Town come to have a school?

2. Cudjo reports that the "colored folks" of what classification had picked on native Africans, calling them "ig'nant savage[s]" (68)?

3. Free George tells Cudjo and his friends that they ought to take what action?

4. For how many days was Cudjo forced to stay in the place where his people's body parts were being displayed as signs of the King of Dahomey's victory?

5. Where had Cudjo slept during his time as a slave belonging to the Meahers?

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