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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 shot by the German brewery-master at James Hughes's house in Mexico?
(a) Lotte and Gerta.
(b) Frau Schultz and Gerta.
(c) A neighbor and his wife.
(d) Frau Schultz and Lotte.

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

3. Who was Auntie Reed and Uncle Reed?
(a) The people Hughes was sent to live with when he was twleve.
(b) The people Hughes met on his way to see his father.
(c) The people Hughes met on the S.S. Malone.
(d) The people who lived next door to his grandmother.

4. Why did Hughes agree to go to Mexico after his high school graduation and meet his father?
(a) He thought his father might pay for college.
(b) He mised his father.
(c) He thought his father would stop sending money if he did not.
(d) He wanted to learn about ranching.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the famous poem Hughes wrote on the train trip to Mexico?

2. What did Hughes's father decide he should study in school?

3. Where did Hughes meet Frau Schultz?

4. What was the "mother ship?"

5. What canned meat did Frau Schultz and Hughes enjoy that had a label written in Spanish only?

(see the answer key)

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