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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. In what season does Hurston interview Cudjo for the first time within Barracoon's pages?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

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

3. Hearing what word often brings tears to Cudjo's eyes within the interviews?
(a) Son.
(b) Mother.
(c) Africa.
(d) Slave.

4. By whom is the Introduction to Barracoon written?
(a) Deborah G. Plant.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Cudjo.

5. How old does Cudjo say he had been when he had last seen Africa?
(a) 11.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wives does Cudjo say his father had acquired?

2. What type of fruit does Hurston bring to Cudjo at the start of Chapter II?

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

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

5. What kind of beverage was drunk by the mourners of Cudjo's grandfather?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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