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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 did Hughes feel about Columbia once he started college there?
(a) He loved it.
(b) He was homesick for Cleveland.
(c) He did not like it.
(d) He was bored and tired of it.

2. Who did Rudolph Fisher sing with while he was in college?
(a) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Paul Robeson.
(c) Besie Smith.
(d) Josephine Baker.

3. When did Hughes finally leave Mexico to return to America?
(a) September, 1923.
(b) October, 1920.
(c) September, 1921.
(d) August, 1921.

4. How did Hughes describe the Saturday night rent parties he attended?
(a) Well known musicians performing for poor blacks to raise rent money.
(b) Cigar smoking, whiskey drinking womanizing.
(c) Spontaneous music, laughter, good fried fish, and bootlegged whiskey.
(d) Boring evenings with too many people packed in too small a space.

5. Who starred in "La Revue Negre" in Paris with Maude Russell and Claude Hopkins?
(a) Rudolph Fisher.
(b) Josephine Baker.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Carolyn Dudley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was shot by the German brewery-master at James Hughes's house in Mexico?

2. Why did Hughes take over the job of mess boy on the ship to Europe?

3. Where did Hughes meet Sonya?

4. When did Wallace Thurman die?

5. What was the "Interstate Tattler?"

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