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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. Cudjo is wearing what item at the start of Chapter XI when Hurston picks him up and he begins to talk about his marriage?
(a) A battered hat.
(b) A shawl.
(c) A tie.
(d) A shiny pair of shoes.

2. Cudjo's king is known throughout Africa as what part of the leopard?
(a) The Mouth of the Leopard.
(b) The Claw of the Leopard.
(c) The Whisker of the Leopard.
(d) The Tooth of the Leopard.

3. 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) Destroy the wheat.
(b) Harvest the corn.
(c) Kill the hogs.
(d) Sell the family jewels.

4. Cudjo reports that the "colored folks" of what classification had picked on native Africans, calling them "ig'nant savage[s]" (68)?
(a) Who had acquired good jobs.
(b) Who had been awarded stipends.
(c) Who had never been slaves.
(d) Who had been born in America.

5. Cudjo states that a traitor from where had made a deal with the King of Dahomey?
(a) Tenge.
(b) Makanfenkpar.
(c) Tokkoi.
(d) Senegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years had Cudjo lived as a slave of the Meahers?

2. What is the name of Cudjo's king?

3. Where had Cudjo slept during his time as a slave belonging to the Meahers?

4. What does Cudjo report seeing immediately after his king had said that he would not give up his power to join with the King of Dahomey?

5. Who is chosen as the head of the community Cudjo and the other freed slaves form after their emancipation, a community they call Africa Town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What reason does Cudjo provide for not wanting Hurston to visit him on Saturdays?

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

4. Who funded Hurston's second expedition to interview Cudjo and what involvement did she come to have in Cudjo's life?

5. To what position do the people of Africa Town appoint Cudjo when they see he is unable to work?

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

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

8. After deciding to stay in America, Cudjo and his countrymen and women adopt what type of organizational structure within their community?

9. When Hurston comes to interview Cudjo on a Saturday at the start of Chapter VI entitled Barracoon, what activities do the two end up doing instead?

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

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