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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 Hughes's job on the ship across the ocean?
(a) He was a police officer.
(b) He was a mess boy.
(c) He was a janitor.
(d) He was an oarsman.

2. Where did Hughes's father want him to go to school to study three languages at once?
(a) Spain.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) America.
(d) Germany.

3. Where did the S.S. Malone finally put in?
(a) Dakar.
(b) Suilee.
(c) Sanswan.
(d) Azores.

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

5. Where did Hughes go to live when he was in second grade?
(a) With his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas.
(b) With his uncle in Brooklyn, New York.
(c) With his aunt in Kansas City, Missouri.
(d) With his grandmother in Memphis, Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Hughes have trouble writing about bullfights?

2. Where did Hughes, his mother, and his grandmother go to meet his father?

3. Which of Hughes's relatives became Dean of the first law school at Howard University?

4. Who were all but one of the six passengers aboard the S.S Malone?

5. How did Hughes think poems were like rainbows?

(see the answer key)

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