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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. What sign does Hurston name as indicating that Cudjo is somewhere close by his house?
(a) There is a fire going in the fire pit.
(b) His great-granddaughters are on the porch.
(c) The front gate is unlocked.
(d) The front door is standing open.

2. What does Cudjo name as his first inclination regarding the likely reason for the chief's decision to summon boys over the age of 14?
(a) He thought the boys would begin to be taxed.
(b) He thought the boys would have marriages arranged for them.
(c) He thought the boys would be put into the army.
(d) He thought the boys would be sold as slaves.

3. Cudjo tells Hurston that he remembers everything that has ever happened to him since he had been a youth of what age?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

4. Cudjo says that the daughter of a very rich man back in his community in Africa would install each of his daughters in a fat-house for what period of time?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 100 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

5. What kind of beverage was drunk by the mourners of Cudjo's grandfather?
(a) Palm wine.
(b) Darjeeling tea.
(c) Rum.
(d) Lemonade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cudjo tells Hurston that he had been the son of which wife of his father's?

2. What gift does Hurston bring to Cudjo the day he takes her on a tour of his gardens?

3. By whom is the Introduction to Barracoon written?

4. 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?

5. Cudjo's house in Alabama is within sight distance of whose house?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the story Cudjo tells about a murderer in his African village, what penalty is enacted after the accused is found guilty?

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

3. What reason does Cudjo give for having another visitor the first day Zora Neale Hurston comes to interview him at his home?

4. At what age does Cudjo describe leaving Africa, and what does he say about the number of initiation rites he had completed by that time?

5. What is the significance of Cudjo's reaction when Hurston tells him to focus on his own story rather than on his grandfather's story?

6. 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?

7. After Cudjo tells Hurston about his grandfather, what happens to make Hurston cut their visit short for the day?

8. What major event happens within Cudjo's family in the story he tells at the start of Chapter III?

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

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

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