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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 objects are required to be brought to the king once a leopard has been killed, according to Cudjo?
(a) The tail and heart.
(b) The eyes.
(c) The whiskers.
(d) The ears.

2. What reason does Cudjo give Hurston at the end of Chapter II when he wants Hurston to leave?
(a) He says he wants to be alone with his great-granddaughters.
(b) He says he cannot remember anything else.
(c) He says he is tired.
(d) He says he is sad.

3. At what location were the barracoons from which Cudjo was taken by the owner of the Clotilda?
(a) Senegal.
(b) Whydah.
(c) Olaudah.
(d) Johannesburg.

4. The owner of the Clotilde deceptively reported that the ship had been on a mission to retrieve what product?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Red palm oil.
(c) Sugar cane.
(d) Opium.

5. 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)?
(a) The 8th.
(b) The 21st.
(c) The 4th.
(d) The 13th.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. There is a large tree in Cudjo's yard that bears what type of fruit?

3. On which coast of Africa were the barracoons of Whydah located?

4. Chapter II's title refers to the arrival of what person in Cudjo's life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Zora Neale Hurston's purpose for including a photograph of a doorway just prior to the Preface of Barracoon?

2. What is the custom Cudjo describes that involves the whiskers of a leopard?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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