View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hurston offers to help Cudjo, he says that he wants her to take him to what location?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Selma.
(c) Reform.
(d) Macon.

2. What action does Cudjo report taking the entire first night of his captivity?
(a) Plotting.
(b) Crying.
(c) Humming.
(d) Singing.

3. At what time of day does Cudjo say the Dahomey had broken the Great Gate of Tokkoi?
(a) Daybreak.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Noon.
(d) Midnight.

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

5. Cudjo reports with horror that the Dahomey soldiers had removed what part of people's bodies before they were dead?
(a) Their ears.
(b) Their jawbones.
(c) Their eyeballs.
(d) Their fingers.

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

7. What is NOT an insult Cudjo names as being one thrown at his children by black people born in America?
(a) They are accused to being related to monkeys.
(b) They are told that their skin is too dark.
(c) They are called savages.
(d) They are called cannibals.

8. What weapon does Cudjo describe being used by the overseer at the Meahers' plantation?
(a) A mace.
(b) A knife.
(c) A whip.
(d) A gun.

9. Cudjo says that he had given each of his children what type of name because he and Seely "not furgit [their] home" (72)?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Juju.
(c) African.
(d) American.

10. For how long was Cudjo in bed after his train accident?
(a) 21 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 14 days.
(d) 7 days.

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

12. 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) $10,000.
(c) $650.
(d) $5,000.

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

14. How long had Cudjo and Seely been married before they had a child together?
(a) 10 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 8 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What position had the citizens of Africa Town awarded to Cudjo once he could no longer work due to the train accident?

2. What position had the new head of Africa Town held back in Africa?

3. What position had the killer of Cudjo's son Cudjo taken by the time of Cudjo's discussion of him in Barracoon?

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

5. What item do Cudjo and his male friends tell the women that they must eschew in order to save up money?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 522 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample