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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 body of water borders the land on which the barracoons housing Cudjo and other slaves stood?
(a) The Gulf of Guinea.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Bay of Bengal.
(d) Lake Oswego.

2. Cudjo's house in Alabama is within sight distance of whose house?
(a) Cudjo's daughter-in-law.
(b) Cudjo's granddaughter.
(c) Cudjo's caretaker.
(d) Cudjo's sister-in-law.

3. Whom does Cudjo name as having decided adultery cases within his former community in Africa?
(a) The spouse of the accused.
(b) The magistrate.
(c) The king.
(d) The village chief.

4. What is NOT named among the fruits for which Cudjo and his sibings would search the woods during his childhood?
(a) Pineapple.
(b) Banana.
(c) Avocado.
(d) Mango.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What day and time does Cudjo name at the end of Chapter I when telling Hurston when she should return to his home?

2. What does Cudjo say had been the name of the god he had worshiped in Africa?

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

4. How many fully biologically-related older siblings had Cudjo had?

5. The well from which Cudjo draws his water at his Alabama home lies between two rows of what type of crop?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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