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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. Where had Cudjo slept during his time as a slave belonging to the Meahers?
(a) In a cabin.
(b) In the shed.
(c) In a tent.
(d) Under the house.

2. In what type of contraption does the King of Dahomey travel during the period when Cudjo is captured?
(a) A carriage.
(b) A platform.
(c) A hammock.
(d) A litter.

3. What reason does Cudjo provide for not wanting to "mixee wid de other folks" (68) at an existing church?
(a) A new church built by the people of Africa Town would have the correct juju.
(b) Black people who had been born in America mercilessly made fun of Cudjo and his friends.
(c) White people who had owned slaves belonged to the existing church.
(d) Integrated churches were likely to be dangerous places.

4. Cudjo's late wife had the American name of Seely, but what does he report as the African name she had been given at birth?
(a) Madigo.
(b) Argola.
(c) A-oo-lat-i.
(d) Abila.

5. How had Africa Town come to have a school?
(a) The citizens built the schoolhouse and then asked the county to send a teacher.
(b) The citizens applied for a government grant and were awarded the money to build a school.
(c) An old warehouse was renovated and used as a school.
(d) The teacher turned her own house into a makeshift schoolhouse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What present did the chief at the first town give to the King of Dahomey in order to stave off a raid?

3. Cudjo is wearing what item at the start of Chapter XI when Hurston picks him up and he begins to talk about his marriage?

4. Cudjo's king is known throughout Africa as what part of the leopard?

5. Which two people does Cudjo name when saying who he had thought should be responsible for returning him to Africa?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. About what event does Cudjo tell Hurston that after the telling, causes his face to take on the appearance of, in Hurston's words, "a horror mask" (48)?

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

4. The day when Hurston takes Cudjo into Mobile to buy crab in Chapter IX, what topic does Cudjo tell Hurston about on the way there?

5. In Chapter VIII entitled Freedom, Cudjo tells of getting together with his countrymen after they had been freed. What was the general consensus within this meeting?

6. How does Cudjo describe the origins of his possible engagement to a particular woman in Africa?

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

8. What is the significance of Chapter VII's title Barracoon?

9. What kind of work do Cudjo and his countrymen and women perform once they are free?

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

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