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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cudjo's house in Alabama is within sight distance of whose house?
(a) Cudjo's caretaker.
(b) Cudjo's daughter-in-law.
(c) Cudjo's granddaughter.
(d) Cudjo's sister-in-law.

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) The man himself.
(c) The man's first wife.
(d) A matchmaker.

3. How many meals per day does a young woman eat when residing in a fat-house?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

4. About whom is Cudjo trying to tell Hurston when she breaks in, telling Cudjo that she wants to hear more about his own life?
(a) Cudjo's sister.
(b) Cudjo's son.
(c) Cudjo's father.
(d) Cudjo's grandfather.

5. What is the penalty for killing a leopard and failing to bring the king its required body parts, according to Cudjo?
(a) Death.
(b) 5 years in prison.
(c) The loss of a wife.
(d) A hefty fine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sells Cudjo to the white North American slavers?

2. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?

3. How old does Cudjo say he had been when he had last seen Africa?

4. On what day of the sea voyage were the slaves finally brought up onto the deck so that they could "regain the use of their limbs" (11)?

5. Cudjo describes himself as being how old when his grandfather had died?

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