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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. How did Hughes's father feel about Negroes?
(a) He respected them.
(b) He hated them.
(c) He did not care one way or another.
(d) He liked them.

2. Who were all but one of the six passengers aboard the S.S Malone?
(a) Nordic missionaries.
(b) Dutch settlers.
(c) English statesmen.
(d) Spanish missionaries.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Sandy Hook?

2. When did Hughes finally leave Mexico to return to America?

3. How did the Africans Hughes met respond to his skin color?

4. Why did Hughes have trouble writing about bullfights?

5. What was the name of the children's play Hughes wrote and published in the "Brownie Book"?

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