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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. Which of Hughes's relatives became Dean of the first law school at Howard University?
(a) His grandmother's brother.
(b) His grandfather's brother.
(c) His great uncle.
(d) His grandfather.

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

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

4. How old was Hughes when he sailed away from America?
(a) 18.
(b) 24.
(c) 22.
(d) 21.

5. How did the Africans Hughes met respond to his skin color?
(a) They did not consider him a mess boy.
(b) They did not consider him a Negro.
(c) They thought he was an American Indian.
(d) They thought he was a Mexican.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Hughes have trouble writing about bullfights?

2. What canned meat did Frau Schultz and Hughes enjoy that had a label written in Spanish only?

3. Where did Hughes find work the summer after his freshman year at Columbia?

4. Why did Hughes turn down Alain Locke's request to meet with him?

5. What did "Negro" mean in the United States?

(see the answer key)

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