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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V-VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?
(a) The man.
(b) The next-to-latest wife to be wed.
(c) The pastor.
(d) The original wife.

2. The King of Dahomey, on whose behalf Cudjo was captured and sold into slavery, is said to have maintained an army of how many people?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 12,000.

3. What present did the chief at the first town give to the King of Dahomey in order to stave off a raid?
(a) Bananas and mangoes.
(b) Pigs and corn.
(c) Wheat and pheasants.
(d) Yams and corn.

4. By whom is the Introduction to Barracoon written?
(a) Cudjo.
(b) Deborah G. Plant.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Alice Walker.

5. Cudjo states that if a person were found guilty of murder in his former community in Africa, then what consequence would have been levied upon that person?
(a) The murderer would be thrown into prison for many years.
(b) The murderer would have had to pay a very heavy fine.
(c) The murderer would be executed by the remaining family members of the murder victim.
(d) The murderer would be bound to the dead body of the person he had murdered and would be left there for dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. The text states that the Dahoman year was split into two parts that included what two elements?

2. How many wives does Cudjo say his father had acquired?

3. Cudjo reports that on his first day as a slave of the Dahomey, he could not take what action because he missed home too much?

4. What does Cudjo say had been his father's name?

5. Cudjo's king is known throughout Africa as what part of the leopard?

(see the answer key)

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