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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month and year did Zora Neale Hurston first meet Cudjo?

2. What is NOT named among the fruits for which Cudjo and his sibings would search the woods during his childhood?

3. What kind of beverage was drunk by the mourners of Cudjo's grandfather?

4. Who owned and sailed in command of the Clotilde ship at the time Cudjo was aboard it?

5. At what location were the barracoons from which Cudjo was taken by the owner of the Clotilda?

Short Essay Questions

1. What methods of deception are used by the men at the helm of the Clotilde when Cudjo is aboard the ship?

2. Describe the death rituals Cudjo describes as being followed within his former African community.

3. What does Cudjo mean when he tells Hurston that his family "ain' got no ivory be de door" (19)?

4. At the end of the Introduction, Zora Neale Hurston writes that she has been sent to ask three questions of Cudjo. What are the three questions?

5. Explain the customs followed by the wives of a deceased man in Cudjo's former African community.

6. What major event happens within Cudjo's family in the story he tells at the start of Chapter III?

7. After Cudjo tells Hurston about his grandfather, what happens to make Hurston cut their visit short for the day?

8. What is Cudjo's reaction when Hurston calls him Kossula?

9. At what age does Cudjo describe leaving Africa, and what does he say about the number of initiation rites he had completed by that time?

10. How old is Cudjo at the time he is first interviewed by Zora Neale Hurston and what special problems does his age pose to Hurston's process?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the delay involved in the 2018 publication of Zora Neale Hurston's book entitled Barracoon. What is the significance of the delay and how does its significance connect to the text's larger themes?

Essay Topic 2

How does Hurston's use of the third person point of view serve her purposes over the course of the book? Discuss how Hurston’s choice of point of view at certain points within the text helps to advance her treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.

Essay Topic 3

What is the symbolism and purpose of the photograph of the doorway included prior to Zora Neale Hurston’s epigraph?

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