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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. Who sells Cudjo to the white North American slavers?
(a) The King of Dahomey.
(b) Ben Meaher.
(c) Olaudah Equiano.
(d) Captain Foster.

2. 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?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 1,500.

3. How many slaves were bought in the same transaction in which Cudjo was purchased?
(a) 320.
(b) 130.
(c) 100.
(d) 50.

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

5. For one year after a woman's husband dies, she is forbidden to take what action?
(a) Wash her face.
(b) Change her clothes.
(c) Marry.
(d) Comb her hair.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whom does Cudjo name as the agent responsible for finding a man wives to add to his family?

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

5. How many days pass between Cudjo telling Hurston about his grandfather's death and her next visit to his home?

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. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

6. What are the circumstances of Zora Neale Hurston first meeting with Cudjo?

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

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

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

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

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