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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. Chapter IX exhibits what title?

2. Who is chosen as the head of the community Cudjo and the other freed slaves form after their emancipation, a community they call Africa Town?

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. What item do Cudjo and his male friends tell the women that they must eschew in order to save up money?

5. What position had the citizens of Africa Town awarded to Cudjo once he could no longer work due to the train accident?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. To what position do the people of Africa Town appoint Cudjo when they see he is unable to work?

7. What do the three men from Dahomey say when they meet with Cudjo's king, King Akia'on?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Cudjo’s use of characterization methods to portray his family members and other people whom he discusses with Zora Neale Hurston. What effect do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?

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

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?

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