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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Twenty-One,Tragedy at Toluca—Time to Leave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were all but one of the six passengers aboard the S.S Malone?
(a) Spanish missionaries.
(b) English statesmen.
(c) Dutch settlers.
(d) Nordic missionaries.

2. Who was Mrs. Dorsey?
(a) The woman who rented Hughes a room in her home in Harlem.
(b) The woman who taught Hughes poetry.
(c) The woman who hired Hughes at the flower store.
(d) The woman who published Hughes' poetry.

3. Where did Hughes go to live when he was in second grade?
(a) With his uncle in Brooklyn, New York.
(b) With his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas.
(c) With his grandmother in Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) With his aunt in Kansas City, Missouri.

4. Who took over Hughes's English classes when he left Mexico?
(a) A woman in the village.
(b) A woman from Arkansas.
(c) James Hughes.
(d) Frau Schultz.

5. How did the Africans Hughes met respond to his skin color?
(a) They did not consider him a Negro.
(b) They thought he was an American Indian.
(c) They did not consider him a mess boy.
(d) They thought he was a Mexican.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Langston Hughes born?

2. What did Hughes's father finally do for his son?

3. What was Sandy Hook?

4. How did Hughes think poems were like rainbows?

5. How much was Hughes supposed to win by spending the night on the haunted ship?

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