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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Cudjo's train accident occur?
(a) March 12, 1902.
(b) November 16, 1896.
(c) April 4, 1879.
(d) February 19, 1879.

2. How had Africa Town come to have a school?
(a) The citizens built the schoolhouse and then asked the county to send a teacher.
(b) An old warehouse was renovated and used as a school.
(c) The citizens applied for a government grant and were awarded the money to build a school.
(d) The teacher turned her own house into a makeshift schoolhouse.

3. What type of fruit does Hurston bring to Cudjo at the start of Chapter II?
(a) Apples.
(b) Peaches.
(c) Pears.
(d) Plums.

4. Cudjo's late wife had the American name of Seely, but what does he report as the African name she had been given at birth?
(a) Madigo.
(b) Abila.
(c) Argola.
(d) A-oo-lat-i.

5. What is the name of Cudjo's king?
(a) King O'lai'm.
(b) King Akia'on.
(c) King Olaudah.
(d) King Equiano.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position had the killer of Cudjo's son Cudjo taken by the time of Cudjo's discussion of him in Barracoon?

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

3. How many fully biologically-related older siblings had Cudjo had?

4. Whom does Cudjo name as having decided adultery cases within his former community in Africa?

5. How much money did Cudjo's lawyer seek from the railroad for their role in Cudjo's accident with the train?

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