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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. What was Hughes's job on the ship across the ocean?
(a) He was a mess boy.
(b) He was a police officer.
(c) He was an oarsman.
(d) He was a janitor.

2. What was the "mother ship?"
(a) A ship carrying generals and dignitaries to ocean liners.
(b) A ship carrying a crew to keep the dead ships in order.
(c) A ship carrying soldiers to submarine boats.
(d) A ship carrying food and supplies to soldiers at sea.

3. Where did Hughes's father want him to go to school to study three languages at once?
(a) America.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) Switzerland.

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

5. With whom did Hughes stay his first night in New York City?
(a) No one, he stayed by himself in a hotel.
(b) Two Mexicans he had met on the ship.
(c) His mother and stepfather who met him there.
(d) Friends he knew from teaching English in Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Hughes's horse at his father's house?

2. What was Sandy Hook?

3. How did Hughes begin earning his own money while he lived with his father?

4. Where did Hughes, his mother, and his grandmother go to meet his father?

5. How did Hughes obtain a sleeping car in San Antonio on his way to Cleveland?

(see the answer key)

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