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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) Fine clothes.
(c) Opium.
(d) Big houses.

2. Who is chosen as the head of the community Cudjo and the other freed slaves form after their emancipation, a community they call Africa Town?
(a) Mary.
(b) Gumpa.
(c) Jim.
(d) Cudjo.

3. For how many years had Cudjo lived as a slave of the Meahers?
(a) Over 5 years.
(b) Over 18 years.
(c) Over 12 years.
(d) Over 2 years.

4. Captain Jim Meaher tells Cudjo to take what action when the food on the plantation begins to run out due to the Civil War?
(a) Harvest the corn.
(b) Sell the family jewels.
(c) Destroy the wheat.
(d) Kill the hogs.

5. What day and time does Cudjo name at the end of Chapter I when telling Hurston when she should return to his home?
(a) Independence Day.
(b) A week from Thursday.
(c) The following evening.
(d) The following morning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Toward what object had Cudjo run just after his king had been killed before his very eyes?

5. What does Cudjo report seeing immediately after his king had said that he would not give up his power to join with the King of Dahomey?

(see the answer key)

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