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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Twenty-One,Tragedy at Toluca—Time to Leave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the children's play Hughes wrote and published in the "Brownie Book"?
(a) "The Gold Watch."
(b) "The Gold Piece."
(c) "The Golden Fish."
(d) "The Golden Horse."

2. What was Sandy Hook?
(a) The place at which Hughes' father lived.
(b) The place in which Hughes was born.
(c) The place in which Highes went to school.
(d) The place at which Hughes threw his books overboard.

3. 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 thought he was an American Indian.
(d) They did not consider him a Negro.

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

5. Where did Hughes go to see the bullfights in Mexico?
(a) Maderia.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Tucales.
(d) Guatalahara.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many fraternities did Hughes pledge for?

2. Why was the dormitory director at Columbia reluctant to give Hughes his room?

3. How did Hughes feel when he arrived in Harlem for the first time?

4. What was the "mother ship?"

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

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