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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 was Captain Ralph Quarles?
(a) Hughes's maternal great-grandfather.
(b) Hughes's paternal great-grandfather.
(c) Captain of the ship on which the Hughes came to America.
(d) Captain of the S.S. Malone.

2. What rivers were on Hughes's mind when he wrote his famous poem on the way to Mexico?
(a) The MIssissippi, Appalachian, Ural and the Nile.
(b) The Mississippi, Congo, Niger, and the Nile.
(c) The Mississippi, Rio Grande, Niger and the Nile.
(d) The Mississippi, Missouri, and the Nile.

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

4. What did Hughes's father decide he should study in school?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Mining engineering.
(c) Mechanical engineering.
(d) Farming and ranching.

5. Where did Langston Hughes want to attend college?
(a) Columbia in New York City.
(b) Yale in New Haven.
(c) Loyola in Chicago.
(d) Harvard in Boston.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. How did Hughes think poems were like rainbows?

(see the answer key)

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