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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item do Cudjo and his male friends tell the women that they must eschew in order to save up money?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Opium.
(c) Fine clothes.
(d) Big houses.

2. Whom does Cudjo describe as "de best friend de Afficans got" (67)?
(a) Free George.
(b) Free Jasper.
(c) Free Jeffrey.
(d) Free William.

3. What sound at the marketplace does Cudjo report liking?
(a) The sound of cooing doves.
(b) The sound of a horse's whinny.
(c) The sound of a train in the distance.
(d) The sound of women's bracelets jangling.

4. For how long was Cudjo enslaved in Alabama?
(a) 5 1/2years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 10 1/2 years.
(d) 15 years.

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 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 100 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of contraption does the King of Dahomey travel during the period when Cudjo is captured?

2. Hurston describes Cudjo as hustling his great-granddaughters off to play by using what type of "abuse" (25)?

3. What reason does Cudjo provide for not wanting to "mixee wid de other folks" (68) at an existing church?

4. For one year after a woman's husband dies, she is forbidden to take what action?

5. On what date does Cudjo say he was freed from slavery?

(see the answer key)

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