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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. Where did Hughes, his mother, and his grandmother go to meet his father?
(a) California.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Mexico.

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

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

4. Where did Hughes meet Frau Schultz?
(a) In the diner car of the train.
(b) In St Louis at the train station.
(c) At his father's home in Toluca.
(d) On the train to Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Hughes's horse at his father's house?

2. Where was Langston Hughes born?

3. What did Hughes consider the "greatest Negro city in the world?"

4. What is the name of the famous poem Hughes wrote on the train trip to Mexico?

5. Where did Langston Hughes want to attend college?

(see the answer key)

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