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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. When Hurston offers to help Cudjo and he accepts, what items does he buy in the location to which she takes him?
(a) Bags of fertilizer.
(b) Safety pins.
(c) Turnip seeds.
(d) Shovels.

2. What action does Cudjo report taking the entire first night of his captivity?
(a) Plotting.
(b) Crying.
(c) Singing.
(d) Humming.

3. How much money did the judge award Cudjo for the railroad's failure to blow a whistle or to ring a bell upon the train's approach?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $650.
(d) $7,500.

4. What is Cudjo's first-born son's American name?
(a) David.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Aleck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cudjo reports that the "colored folks" of what classification had picked on native Africans, calling them "ig'nant savage[s]" (68)?

2. Cudjo reports with horror that the Dahomey soldiers had removed what part of people's bodies before they were dead?

3. The Dahomey soldiers tell Cudjo that they cannot listen to his cries since they have only been sent to perform what task for the King of Dahomey?

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

5. How many men arrive from Dahomey and ask Cudjo to speak with Cudjo's king?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is different about the start of Chapter VII entitled Slavery, in relation to its introduction?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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