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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters II-IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cudjo name as his first inclination regarding the likely reason for the chief's decision to summon boys over the age of 14?
(a) He thought the boys would be sold as slaves.
(b) He thought the boys would begin to be taxed.
(c) He thought the boys would have marriages arranged for them.
(d) He thought the boys would be put into the army.

2. Whom does Cudjo name as the agent responsible for finding a man wives to add to his family?
(a) The man's mother.
(b) A matchmaker.
(c) The man himself.
(d) The man's first wife.

3. What sign does Hurston name as indicating that Cudjo is somewhere close by his house?
(a) The front door is standing open.
(b) The front gate is unlocked.
(c) His great-granddaughters are on the porch.
(d) There is a fire going in the fire pit.

4. Cudjo describes himself as being how old when his grandfather had died?
(a) A baby.
(b) A little boy.
(c) A grown man.
(d) A teenager.

5. Cudjo says that the daughter of a very rich man back in his community in Africa would install each of his daughters in a fat-house for what period of time?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 100 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. The well from which Cudjo draws his water at his Alabama home lies between two rows of what type of crop?

2. What body of water borders the land on which the barracoons housing Cudjo and other slaves stood?

3. How many meals per day does a young woman eat when residing in a fat-house?

4. At what time does Hurston arrive at Cudjo's house at the start of Chapter II?

5. Upon leaving Cudjo at the end of Chapter I, Hurston describes him as having his "bare feet exposed" (23) to a cloud composed of what types of insects?

(see the answer key)

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