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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 Cudjo and his friends decide to return to Africa, how do they plan to get there?
(a) They plan to get jobs in the shipping industry so that they may return to Africa.
(b) They plan to rob Jim Meaher in order to fund their trip back to Africa.
(c) They plan to save money to buy their own tickets back to Africa.
(d) They plan to apply to the U.S. government for a grant to pay for their trip back to Africa.

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

3. How many names does Cudjo say it is customary for native Africans to give their children who are born on "de Americky soil" (72)?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

4. What is NOT a sound Cudjo describes hearing when he was still in bed on the date when the Dahomey raided the kingdom in which Cudjo resided?
(a) Soldiers breaking the gate.
(b) Male soldiers yelling.
(c) Cannons firing.
(d) Female soldiers yelling.

5. Cudjo reports with horror that the Dahomey soldiers had removed what part of people's bodies before they were dead?
(a) Their ears.
(b) Their fingers.
(c) Their jawbones.
(d) Their eyeballs.

Short Answer 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?

2. What is NOT an insult Cudjo names as being one thrown at his children by black people born in America?

3. For how long was Cudjo in bed after his train accident?

4. At what age does Cudjo report that his daughter Seely had fallen ill and died?

5. Cudjo reports that on his first day as a slave of the Dahomey, he could not take what action because he missed home too much?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Cudjo say about the source of King of Dahomey's wealth?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. 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)?

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