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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Twenty-One, Back Home—Bullfights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were George and Ramon?
(a) Hughes's brothers.
(b) Hughes's classmates.
(c) Hughes's friends in New York.
(d) Hughes's bunk mates.

2. How did Hughes think poems were like rainbows?
(a) They disappear quickly.
(b) They are things of beauty.
(c) They are not everday events.
(d) They last in your memory.

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

4. How did Hughes begin earning his own money while he lived with his father?
(a) He got a job cleaning stables.
(b) He began training horses.
(c) He got a job in a store.
(d) He began teaching English lessons.

5. What did "Negro" mean in the United States?
(a) Someone who had any Negro ancestry.
(b) Someone who was a slave.
(c) Someone who had only Negro blood in his veins.
(d) Someone who was born in Africa and came to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the S.S. Malone's only port of call in the Azores?

2. What was Hughes's job on the ship across the ocean?

3. What was Sandy Hook?

4. Where was Langston Hughes born?

5. What souvenir did Hughes jump in the bullfighting ring just after the fight to get?

(see the answer key)

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