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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. What was the name of Hughes's horse at his father's house?
(a) Taco.
(b) Tito.
(c) Maria.
(d) Tiny.

2. Where was Langston Hughes born?
(a) Hannibal, Missouri.
(b) Canton, MIssissippi.
(c) Joplin, Missouri.
(d) Joplin, Mississippi.

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

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

5. How did the Africans Hughes met respond to his skin color?
(a) They did not consider him a mess boy.
(b) They thought he was a Mexican.
(c) They did not consider him a Negro.
(d) They thought he was an American Indian.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where was Hughes when he was refused service at the train station soda fountain?

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

5. Where was George from?

(see the answer key)

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