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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alma Mater—Post Script.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the play "The Mule Bone?"
(a) Zora Hurston.
(b) Rowena Jelliffe.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes.
(d) Langston Hughes.

2. How long did Hughes live in Washington D.C.?
(a) Three years.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two years.

3. How did Hughes feel about Columbia once he started college there?
(a) He was homesick for Cleveland.
(b) He loved it.
(c) He did not like it.
(d) He was bored and tired of it.

4. Where did Hughes finally find a job?
(a) At a little club as the doorman.
(b) At a library shelving books.
(c) At a hotel as a bellboy.
(d) At a restaurant as a cook.

5. Who was Auntie Reed and Uncle Reed?
(a) The people Hughes met on his way to see his father.
(b) The people who lived next door to his grandmother.
(c) The people Hughes met on the S.S. Malone.
(d) The people Hughes was sent to live with when he was twleve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Hughes want to see performing at the Metropolitan Opera House upon his return to New York?

2. After he returned to America from Italy, how much did Hughes figure his first European trip had cost him?

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

4. What did people do on Seventh Street in Washington in 1924?

5. What was the name of the ship Hughes found in New Orleans traveling to Havana?

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