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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. Cudjo states that he had been nearly what age when the chief had sent for all boys over the age of 14?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

2. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?
(a) The original wife.
(b) The pastor.
(c) The man.
(d) The next-to-latest wife to be wed.

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

4. In what year had Cudjo lost his wife?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1930.

5. What is NOT listed by Cudjo among the tasks a man's wives would perform in order to help him get to sleep in Cudjo's former community in Africa?
(a) Fanning him to create a breeze.
(b) Singing a low lullaby.
(c) Cleaning his hands and toenails.
(d) Rubbing his head.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the sea voyage were the slaves finally brought up onto the deck so that they could "regain the use of their limbs" (11)?

2. At the time of the interviews, Cudjo was living in what town in Alabama?

3. How many initiation rites does Cudjo report he had completed before leaving Africa?

4. Hearing what word often brings tears to Cudjo's eyes within the interviews?

5. What is the penalty for killing a leopard and failing to bring the king its required body parts, according to Cudjo?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Preface, Hurston states her reasons for faithfully representing Cudjo's story "without the intrusion of interpretation" (3). What does she mean?

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

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

4. How does Hurston distinguish between the two types of gifts she brings to Cudjo at the start of Chapter IV and why does she make this distinction?

5. What is Cudjo's reaction when Hurston calls him Kossula?

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. In the story Cudjo tells about a murderer in his African village, what reason does the murderer give for his actions when he is questioned?

8. 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?

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

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

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