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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. Where did Sonya finally find a job?
(a) At the library.
(b) At a bakery.
(c) At a small restaurant.
(d) At Zelli's night club.

2. What was unusual to Hughes about the Hamilton Club Lodge Ball at Rockland Plaza Casino?
(a) Women dress as men and are the asked to dance by the men.
(b) Women invite the men to dance and have dinner with them.
(c) Men dress up as women and the women in the room are spectators.
(d) Women dress as men and men dress as women and prizes are awarded.

3. What did one sailor pass off as French francs in one small French colony African town?
(a) British pound notes.
(b) United Cigar Store coupons.
(c) United Flour and Tea coupons.
(d) Danish Krona.

4. How many monkeys were on the S. S. Malone?
(a) About twenty.
(b) About thirty.
(c) Only one.
(d) About fifteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Captain Ralph Quarles?

2. Where did the S.S. Malone finally put in?

3. With whom did Hughes stay his first night in New York City?

4. Who did Rudolph Fisher sing with while he was in college?

5. Why did Hughes never go to the Cotton Club in Harlem?

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