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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. Why did Hughes take over the job of mess boy on the ship to Europe?
(a) The first mess boy refused to work after the bad storms.
(b) The first mess boy was in the infirmary with the flu.
(c) The first mess boy scalded his foot and ankle.
(d) The first mess boy was found to be incompetent.

2. What did Hughes refer to as the "years of Manhattan's black Renaissance"?
(a) The 1920's.
(b) The turn of the century.
(c) The 1930's.
(d) The early 1900's.

3. Who were Pail Robeson, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith and Roland Hayes?
(a) Some of the musicians Hughes remembered seeing at the Grand Duc.
(b) Some of the musicians to arrive in Africa from Harlem in the 1920s.
(c) Some of the black performers part of the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s.
(d) Some of the musicians heard on white radio stations in the midwest.

4. What famous author wrote the book "cane?"
(a) James Weldon Johnson.
(b) Jean Toomer.
(c) Julia Peterkin.
(d) Margery Latimer.

5. How much was Hughes supposed to win by spending the night on the haunted ship?
(a) Five dollars.
(b) A bottle of scotch.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Twenty dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hughes's mother do after he left home to return to New York?

2. Why did Hughes never go to the Cotton Club in Harlem?

3. Where did Hughes's ship land on Christmas eve in 1923?

4. What was the name of the children's play Hughes wrote and published in the "Brownie Book"?

5. What was "Fire?"

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