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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spectacles in Color—Not Without Laughter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the sailors do on the first day out of the harbor on the way to Africa?
(a) Meet with the captain.
(b) Pick up their assignments.
(c) Clean up the ship.
(d) Cook a meal.

2. What famous dance did the black dancers from America bring with them to Paris?
(a) The Charleston.
(b) The Vienesse Waltz.
(c) The Cha Cha.
(d) The Tango.

3. What was the S.S. Malone's only port of call in the Azores?
(a) Hanai.
(b) Hento.
(c) Basta.
(d) Horta.

4. How did Hughes obtain a sleeping car in San Antonio on his way to Cleveland?
(a) He paid the conductor extra for the room.
(b) He pretended to be Mexican.
(c) He spoke Spanish and was assumed to be Mexican.
(d) He lied about his age.

5. What poem of Hughes won first prize in Witter Bynner's Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Contest in 1926?
(a) "A Raisin in the Sun."
(b) "Walking Stick."
(c) "A House in Taos."
(d) "Wandering Fool."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who starred in "La Revue Negre" in Paris with Maude Russell and Claude Hopkins?

2. About what incident did Hughes write the poem "African Fog?"

3. Who were Pail Robeson, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith and Roland Hayes?

4. Where did Hughes finally find a job?

5. What happened to the monkey cage the sailors built on the S.S. Malone?

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