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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When the Negro Was In Vogue—Nigger Heaven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hughes consider the "greatest Negro city in the world?"
(a) Miami.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Kansas City.

2. How did Hughes get the money for the pullman car from Washington to McKeesport?
(a) He pawned his watch.
(b) He sold Jocko to the shopkeeper.
(c) He sold beads and trinkets from Africa.
(d) He sold a pair of his suit pants.

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

4. Where did Hughes, his mother, and his grandmother go to meet his father?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) California.

5. How long was the sail to Africa from New York?
(a) Three months.
(b) Six months.
(c) Eight months.
(d) Four months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people do on Seventh Street in Washington in 1924?

2. How did Hughes meet Bricktop Ada Smith?

3. Who came to Annette's rescue at fight at the Grand Duc?

4. Where did Zora Neale Hurston attend college?

5. How long did Hughes live in Washington D.C.?

(see the answer key)

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