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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first time Hurston visits Cudjo within Chapter II, what do they end up doing instead of Cudjo telling Hurston about himself?
(a) Cudjo gives Hurston a tour of his gardens.
(b) Hurston asks Cudjo to tell her instead about his children.
(c) Cudjo asks Hurston to help him repair a rip in his blanket.
(d) Cudjo makes a pot of stew and they eat.

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

4. How long in total had the voyage to buy slaves taken the men on the Clotilde?
(a) 90.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 70.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cudjo states that he has been "in Americky soil since" (19) what year?

2. Who sells Cudjo to the white North American slavers?

3. When remonstrating Hurston for not recognizing the importance of ancestors' stories, Cudjo asks her where the house is located in which the what is the leader?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What gift does Zora Neale Hurston bring to Cudjo the second time she comes to his home to interview him and what is his reaction to the gift?

2. What does Cudjo mean when he tells Hurston that his family "ain' got no ivory be de door" (19)?

3. What were the consequences for the Meaher family as a result of their decision to fund a journey to import slaves to Alabama?

4. Explain the customs followed by the wives of a deceased man in Cudjo's former African community.

5. Describe the death rituals Cudjo describes as being followed within his former African community.

6. At the end of the Introduction, Zora Neale Hurston writes that she has been sent to ask three questions of Cudjo. What are the three questions?

7. Cudjo discusses a particular practice undertaken by rich men's daughters in his former community in Africa. What is that practice he describes?

8. What is the significance of the year 1859 in Cudjo's life?

9. What does Cudjo say about secrecy within his former community in Africa?

10. What methods of deception are used by the men at the helm of the Clotilde when Cudjo is aboard the ship?

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