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

2. What is the name of the famous poem Hughes wrote on the train trip to Mexico?
(a) "Rivers Run Deep."
(b) "Too Many Rivers To Cross."
(c) "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
(d) "The Negro's Poem."

3. What was Sandy Hook?
(a) The place in which Hughes was born.
(b) The place at which Hughes' father lived.
(c) The place at which Hughes threw his books overboard.
(d) The place in which Highes went to school.

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

5. Where did Langston Hughes want to attend college?
(a) Harvard in Boston.
(b) Yale in New Haven.
(c) Columbia in New York City.
(d) Loyola in Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hughes's father feel about Negroes?

2. Why did Hughes agree to go to Mexico after his high school graduation and meet his father?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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