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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. Captain Jim Meaher tells Cudjo to take what action when the food on the plantation begins to run out due to the Civil War?
(a) Kill the hogs.
(b) Destroy the wheat.
(c) Harvest the corn.
(d) Sell the family jewels.

2. For how many years had Cudjo lived as a slave of the Meahers?
(a) Over 18 years.
(b) Over 12 years.
(c) Over 5 years.
(d) Over 2 years.

3. Chapter IX exhibits what title?
(a) Wedded Bliss.
(b) Love.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Slavery.

4. Toward what object had Cudjo run just after his king had been killed before his very eyes?
(a) The mountain.
(b) The savanna.
(c) The bush.
(d) The swamp.

5. At what age does Cudjo report that his daughter Seely had fallen ill and died?
(a) 15.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cudjo states that a traitor from where had made a deal with the King of Dahomey?

2. What weapon does Cudjo describe being used by the overseer at the Meahers' plantation?

3. For how long was Cudjo enslaved in Alabama?

4. How had Africa Town come to have a school?

5. Cudjo and Seely form an unofficial marriage with one another how long after they agree to wed?

Short Essay Questions

1. While Cudjo says that he tries to forgive the sheriff who shot his son Cudjo, he thinks that the man should take what action?

2. How does Cudjo react to the news that a "nice white lady in New York" (51) is interested in his story?

3. What significant event occurred on March 12, 1902?

4. What action does Cudjo take against the railroad company and what is the result of that action?

5. What do the three men from Dahomey say when they meet with Cudjo's king, King Akia'on?

6. What does Cudjo say about the way in which he and other Africans had been treated by black people born in America?

7. What instruction does Seely keep repeating to her son Cudjo when he is struggling to survive his wounds?

8. How much land does Cudjo take for himself when the land purchased from the Meahers is divided up?

9. In what way do dreams arise within Cudjo's comments to Hurston?

10. What is the result when Cudjo asks Captain Tim Meaher to give the citizens of Africa Town part of his land to live on?

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