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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. How many fully biologically-related older siblings had Cudjo had?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

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

3. What are the names of Cudjo's twin great-granddaughters?
(a) Mary and Martha.
(b) Katie and Kimberly.
(c) Nancy and Nelda.
(d) Teresa and Taylor.

4. Cudjo tells Hurston that he had been the son of which wife of his father's?
(a) The sixth wife.
(b) The third wife.
(c) The chief wife.
(d) The second wife.

5. Whom does Cudjo name as the agent responsible for finding a man wives to add to his family?
(a) The man's first wife.
(b) A matchmaker.
(c) The man himself.
(d) The man's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cudjo's mother in Africa had given him what name?

2. How long in total had the voyage to buy slaves taken the men on the Clotilde?

3. Cudjo states that if a person were found guilty of murder in his former community in Africa, then what consequence would have been levied upon that person?

4. Cudjo describes himself as being how old when his grandfather had died?

5. Cudjo tells Hurston that he remembers everything that has ever happened to him since he had been a youth of what age?

Short Essay Questions

1. How old is Cudjo at the time he is first interviewed by Zora Neale Hurston and what special problems does his age pose to Hurston's process?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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