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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. What is the name of Cudjo's king?
2. In what year did Cudjo's lawyer in the case against the railroad die?
3. After Cudjo finishes telling Hurston about his people's body parts being displayed by the King of Dahomey, she describes his face as what type of mask?
4. What weapon does Cudjo describe being used by the overseer at the Meahers' plantation?
5. Cudjo says that he had given each of his children what type of name because he and Seely "not furgit [their] home" (72)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason does Cudjo provide for not wanting Hurston to visit him on Saturdays?
2. What kind of work do Cudjo and his countrymen and women perform once they are free?
3. What does Cudjo say about the source of King of Dahomey's wealth?
4. What is the result when Cudjo asks Captain Tim Meaher to give the citizens of Africa Town part of his land to live on?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. After deciding to stay in America, Cudjo and his countrymen and women adopt what type of organizational structure within their community?
8. How does Cudjo describe the origins of his possible engagement to a particular woman in Africa?
9. To what position do the people of Africa Town appoint Cudjo when they see he is unable to work?
10. What does Cudjo say about the way in which he and other Africans had been treated by black people born in America?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's and interviewee’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the book Barracoon. How do Zora Neale Hurston and her interviewee Cudjo use each of the three appeals to persuade the reader of argumentative points central to the tenets of the work?
Essay Topic 2
What ultimate message is Hurston's book Barracoon sending about the mythical qualities of the United States and its historical treatment of people of color?
Essay Topic 3
Perform a biographical criticism of Hurston's book Barracoon by researching the author's life and work. Be sure to create a strong and specific claim focused on this particular book and then support that claim with quotes from the book and from your author research.
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