The Big Sea: An Autobiography Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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The Big Sea: An Autobiography Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Twenty-One,Tragedy at Toluca—Time to Leave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many fraternities did Hughes pledge for?
(a) None, he was not invited to pledge for any.
(b) One, his friend Craig's fraternity.
(c) None, he dropped out of college.
(d) Two, both black fraternities.

2. What did "Negro" mean in the United States?
(a) Someone who had only Negro blood in his veins.
(b) Someone who had any Negro ancestry.
(c) Someone who was born in Africa and came to America.
(d) Someone who was a slave.

3. With whom did Hughes stay his first night in New York City?
(a) Two Mexicans he had met on the ship.
(b) Friends he knew from teaching English in Mexico.
(c) His mother and stepfather who met him there.
(d) No one, he stayed by himself in a hotel.

4. How did the Africans Hughes met respond to his skin color?
(a) They did not consider him a Negro.
(b) They did not consider him a mess boy.
(c) They thought he was a Mexican.
(d) They thought he was an American Indian.

5. How old was Hughes when he sailed away from America?
(a) 22.
(b) 24.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Hughes turn down Alain Locke's request to meet with him?

2. How did Hughes feel about Columbia once he started college there?

3. What rivers were on Hughes's mind when he wrote his famous poem on the way to Mexico?

4. What was the S.S. Malone's only port of call in the Azores?

5. What did Hughes do after the end of his freshman year at Columbia?

(see the answer key)

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