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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When the Negro Was In Vogue—Nigger Heaven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people do on Seventh Street in Washington in 1924?
(a) Played the blues, ate barbeque, and laughed a lot.
(b) Played the blues, shoveled coal into furnaces, and grumbled.
(c) Played the blued, talked about the whites, and complained.
(d) Played the blues, huddled around fire cans, and argued.

2. How long was the sail to Africa from New York?
(a) Three months.
(b) Six months.
(c) Eight months.
(d) Four months.

3. Where was Hughes's ship traveling to when he left America?
(a) India.
(b) South America.
(c) Anartica.
(d) Africa.

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

5. How many ports along the west African shore did the S.S. Malone visit?
(a) Fifty two.
(b) Thirty two.
(c) Twenty two.
(d) Eighteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Hughes's second book of poems?

2. Who was one person Dr. Locke arranged for Hughes to meet in Paris?

3. What was the "mother ship?"

4. Why did Hughes agree to go to Mexico after his high school graduation and meet his father?

5. How did Hughes compare talking with Mr. Barnes about art?

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