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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 Hughes's ship bring to Africa?
(a) Machinery, furniture, canned goods, and Hollywood films.
(b) Furniture, machinery, clothing, and Hollywood films.
(c) Machinery, tools, canned goods, and Hollywood films.
(d) Clothing, flour, canned goods, and Hollywood films.

2. Who was Rayford Logan?
(a) The man Hughes met at Howard University who had published Hughes's work.
(b) The man Hughes used as a reference to get a job at the Sorbonne.
(c) The man Hughes met in Paris who helped Hughes find a job.
(d) The man Hughes introduced to Sonya.

3. What was Bruce the chef's reaction to being fired from the Grand Duc?
(a) He clamly walked out of the back door and set the back of the building on fire.
(b) He screamed at the boss and threw a chair at him.
(c) He threatened the boss with a sharp kitchen knife, frightening customers away.
(d) He left without saying a word to anyone.

4. How did Hughes describe the Saturday night rent parties he attended?
(a) Boring evenings with too many people packed in too small a space.
(b) Well known musicians performing for poor blacks to raise rent money.
(c) Spontaneous music, laughter, good fried fish, and bootlegged whiskey.
(d) Cigar smoking, whiskey drinking womanizing.

5. What rivers were on Hughes's mind when he wrote his famous poem on the way to Mexico?
(a) The MIssissippi, Appalachian, Ural and the Nile.
(b) The Mississippi, Congo, Niger, and the Nile.
(c) The Mississippi, Rio Grande, Niger and the Nile.
(d) The Mississippi, Missouri, and the Nile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Hughes's horse at his father's house?

2. What area of the country was discussed by Harlem artists as the new place to live?

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

4. How did Hughes think poems were like rainbows?

5. About what incident did Hughes write the poem "African Fog?"

(see the answer key)

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