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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 S.S. Malone's only port of call in the Azores?
(a) Hanai.
(b) Horta.
(c) Hento.
(d) Basta.

2. Where did Hughes find work the summer after his freshman year at Columbia?
(a) At a bakery in Harlem.
(b) At a newspaper in Cleveland.
(c) At a newspaper in New York City.
(d) At a truck garden on Staten Island.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hughes's job on the ship across the ocean?

2. Where did Hughes go to live when he was in second grade?

3. What rivers were on Hughes's mind when he wrote his famous poem on the way to Mexico?

4. Where did Hughes's father want him to go to school to study three languages at once?

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

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