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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Hearing what word often brings tears to Cudjo's eyes within the interviews?
(a) Africa.
(b) Son.
(c) Slave.
(d) Mother.
2. The first time Hurston visits Cudjo within Chapter II, what do they end up doing instead of Cudjo telling Hurston about himself?
(a) Cudjo gives Hurston a tour of his gardens.
(b) Hurston asks Cudjo to tell her instead about his children.
(c) Cudjo makes a pot of stew and they eat.
(d) Cudjo asks Hurston to help him repair a rip in his blanket.
3. What are the names of Cudjo's twin great-granddaughters?
(a) Mary and Martha.
(b) Nancy and Nelda.
(c) Katie and Kimberly.
(d) Teresa and Taylor.
4. What does Cudjo say had been his mother's name?
(a) Ny-fond-lo-loo.
(b) O-lo-loo-ay.
(c) U-no-noo-pay.
(d) A-la-loo-to.
5. What reason does Cudjo give Hurston at the end of Chapter II when he wants Hurston to leave?
(a) He says he is tired.
(b) He says he cannot remember anything else.
(c) He says he wants to be alone with his great-granddaughters.
(d) He says he is sad.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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)?
2. According to Cudjo, it had been the custom for wives of a deceased husband to take what action immediately upon the man's death?
3. How long in total had the voyage to buy slaves taken the men on the Clotilde?
4. Cudjo's house in Alabama is within sight distance of whose house?
5. The day that Cudjo says he is going to water his potato vines when Hurston is leaving his home, when does he tell Hurston to return?
Short Essay Questions
1. What major event happens within Cudjo's family in the story he tells at the start of Chapter III?
2. What is the significance of Cudjo's reaction when Hurston tells him to focus on his own story rather than on his grandfather's story?
3. Cudjo discusses a particular practice undertaken by rich men's daughters in his former community in Africa. What is that practice he describes?
4. After Cudjo tells Hurston about his grandfather, what happens to make Hurston cut their visit short for the day?
5. What does Cudjo say about secrecy within his former community in Africa?
6. In the story Cudjo tells about a murderer in his African village, what penalty is enacted after the accused is found guilty?
7. What reason does Cudjo give for having another visitor the first day Zora Neale Hurston comes to interview him at his home?
8. What methods of deception are used by the men at the helm of the Clotilde when Cudjo is aboard the ship?
9. What is Zora Neale Hurston's purpose for including a photograph of a doorway just prior to the Preface of Barracoon?
10. What is Cudjo's reaction when Hurston calls him Kossula?
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