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

2. Where did Hughes find work the summer after his freshman year at Columbia?
(a) At a bakery in Harlem.
(b) At a newspaper in Cleveland.
(c) At a newspaper in New York City.
(d) At a truck garden on Staten Island.

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

4. Who did Hughes say was the one professor who he was interested in at Columbia?
(a) Mr. Wasson.
(b) Mr. Wagner.
(c) Mr. Watson.
(d) Mr. Williams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hughes finally find a job?

2. Where did Zora Neale Hurston attend college?

3. What did Hughes refer to as the "years of Manhattan's black Renaissance"?

4. Who did Rudolph Fisher sing with while he was in college?

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

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