Barracoon Test | Final Test - Easy

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Barracoon Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children does Cudjo report having had with his wife Seely?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

2. Which two people does Cudjo name when saying who he had thought should be responsible for returning him to Africa?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston and Gumpa.
(b) President Lincoln and the U.S. Secretary of State.
(c) Captain Meaher and Captain Foster.
(d) The King of Dahomey and Captain Foster.

3. Cudjo's king is known throughout Africa as what part of the leopard?
(a) The Claw of the Leopard.
(b) The Mouth of the Leopard.
(c) The Whisker of the Leopard.
(d) The Tooth of the Leopard.

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

5. For what reason does Cudjo say some of the other slaves on the Meaher plantation had made fun of him and his fellow Africans?
(a) For their earrings.
(b) For their dark skin.
(c) For their African customs and speech.
(d) For their peacock feathers.

6. How much money did the judge award Cudjo for the railroad's failure to blow a whistle or to ring a bell upon the train's approach?
(a) $7,500.
(b) $650.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $5,000.

7. What object does Cudjo report creating after he had been freed?
(a) A key.
(b) An identification card.
(c) A career in animal husbandry.
(d) A drum.

8. In what year did Cudjo's lawyer in the case against the railroad die?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1916.

9. Cudjo describes seeing what body parts of his community members being displayed as signs of the King of Dahomey's victory?
(a) Heads.
(b) Arms.
(c) Fingers.
(d) Feet.

10. 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?
(a) His own king being burned at the stake.
(b) His own king being tossed from a high cliff.
(c) His own king being drowned.
(d) His own king's head being cut off.

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

12. What action does Hurston take when she sees Cudjo's face take on the qualities of a mask during one of their conversations?
(a) She takes a picture of him.
(b) She gives him a hug.
(c) She slips quietly away.
(d) She goes into the next room.

13. For what reason can Cudjo not marry the woman he takes a liking to in the marketplace?
(a) He is already married.
(b) He is too young to marry.
(c) He is not permitted to choose his own wife.
(d) He is too poor to marry a woman of a higher class.

14. Cudjo's son Cudjo was shot and killed by whom?
(a) A white sheriff.
(b) A plantation owner.
(c) A rum runner.
(d) A black sheriff.

15. How had Africa Town come to have a school?
(a) The citizens built the schoolhouse and then asked the county to send a teacher.
(b) The teacher turned her own house into a makeshift schoolhouse.
(c) An old warehouse was renovated and used as a school.
(d) The citizens applied for a government grant and were awarded the money to build a school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a sound Cudjo describes hearing when he was still in bed on the date when the Dahomey raided the kingdom in which Cudjo resided?

2. Where had Cudjo slept during his time as a slave belonging to the Meahers?

3. At the end of Chapter VIII, Cudjo asks that Hurston take him to buy what item the following day?

4. Cudjo is wearing what item at the start of Chapter XI when Hurston picks him up and he begins to talk about his marriage?

5. What is the name of Cudjo's king?

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