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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. How much a night was the first room Hughes stayed in Paris?
(a) Five dollars a night.
(b) One dollar a night.
(c) Fifty cents a night.
(d) Two dollars a night.

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

3. What was "Fire?"
(a) A "Negro Quarterly of the Arts" published by Hughes and other influential blacks.
(b) A "Quarterly for Negro Intellectuals" first published in 1927.
(c) A magazine started by John Davis to expose new black writers.
(d) A book written by Wallace Thurman.

4. How old was Hughes's little brother Kit when Hughes returned from Africa?
(a) About eleven.
(b) About thirteen.
(c) About twelve.
(d) About ten.

5. Why did Hughes never go to the Cotton Club in Harlem?
(a) It was Jim Crow club for gangsters and rich whites.
(b) He did not know big name musicians were playing there.
(c) The club closed in 1923.
(d) It was not open when he not working.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hughes get the money for the pullman car from Washington to McKeesport?

2. What was "Shuffle Along?"

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

4. When did Wallace Thurman die?

5. How did Hughes describe the Saturday night rent parties he attended?

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