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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. What area of the country was discussed by Harlem artists as the new place to live?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) California.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) New Mexico.

2. How did Hughes learn to wait tables and serve drinks?
(a) Luigi and Romeo taught him at the Grand Duc.
(b) No one; he already knew how to do this.
(c) Bricktop Ada Smith taught him in her downtime.
(d) Bruce taught him after the fight at the bar.

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

4. 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.

5. When did Hughes say he most felt like writing?
(a) When he was very happy.
(b) When he was in love.
(c) When he was isolated from people.
(d) When he was unhappy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many ports along the west African shore did the S.S. Malone visit?

2. Who were Pail Robeson, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith and Roland Hayes?

3. Where did Hughes stay when he was in New Orleans on his trip in 1927?

4. What did Hughes do after the end of his freshman year at Columbia?

5. What were some of the stops Hughes's ship made while on its route to and from Havana?

(see the answer key)

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