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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 year did Cudjo's lawyer in the case against the railroad die?

2. Cudjo's son Cudjo was shot and killed by whom?

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)?

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

5. When Cudjo and his friends decide to return to Africa, how do they plan to get there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What instruction does Seely keep repeating to her son Cudjo when he is struggling to survive his wounds?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What significant event occurred on March 12, 1902?

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

10. What action does Cudjo take against the railroad company and what is the result of that action?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of sound within Hurston's book Barracoon.

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

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

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