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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of Hughes's horse at his father's house?
(a) Maria.
(b) Tito.
(c) Taco.
(d) Tiny.

3. How did Hughes think poems were like rainbows?
(a) They disappear quickly.
(b) They last in your memory.
(c) They are not everday events.
(d) They are things of beauty.

4. Who did Hughes want to see performing at the Metropolitan Opera House upon his return to New York?
(a) Eleonora Duse.
(b) Ellen Mayfield.
(c) Ilene Austin.
(d) Eleonore Danton.

5. What was Marcus Garvey known as in Africa?
(a) The man who would stop unfair trade packages between Africa and other countries.
(b) The man who would bring Africans to America as free men.
(c) The man who would liberate the black man in America.
(d) The man who would unify the black world and free Africa.

6. What happened to the S. S. Malone on its voyage home from Africa?
(a) It nearly ran aground at two or three points in the journey.
(b) It made so many stops that it ended up days behind schedule.
(c) It encountered smooth waters and had a pleasant trip home.
(d) It encountered a violent storm and left some passengers very ill.

7. How much was Hughes supposed to win by spending the night on the haunted ship?
(a) Ten dollars.
(b) Twenty dollars.
(c) A bottle of scotch.
(d) Five dollars.

8. What was Hughes's job on the ship across the ocean?
(a) He was a mess boy.
(b) He was a janitor.
(c) He was a police officer.
(d) He was an oarsman.

9. How did the missionaries aboard the S.S. Malone react to their passage to Africa upon the ship?
(a) They wrote letters commending the captain for the good spirit on his ship.
(b) They complained to the main office and threatened to sue the company.
(c) They booked passage home on the S.S. Malone.
(d) They complained to the Maritime Board and to the governor of New York.

10. Where did Hughes's father want him to go to school to study three languages at once?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) America.

11. Why did Hughes agree to go to Mexico after his high school graduation and meet his father?
(a) He thought his father would stop sending money if he did not.
(b) He wanted to learn about ranching.
(c) He mised his father.
(d) He thought his father might pay for college.

12. Where was George from?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Missouri.

13. What was the name of the dormitory at Columbia in which Hughes lived?
(a) Hagred Hall.
(b) Hartland Hall.
(c) Hartley Hall.
(d) Humphrey Hall.

14. What did one sailor pass off as French francs in one small French colony African town?
(a) United Cigar Store coupons.
(b) United Flour and Tea coupons.
(c) British pound notes.
(d) Danish Krona.

15. What did Hughes's mother do after he left home to return to New York?
(a) She let Kit keep Jocko as his pet.
(b) She sent Jocko to Hughes' father in Mexico.
(c) She sold Jocko to a pet store in Pittsburgh.
(d) She sent Jocko back to Africa on the S.S. Malone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hughes consider the "greatest Negro city in the world?"

2. What happened to the monkey cage the sailors built on the S.S. Malone?

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

4. What did Hughes's ship take from Africa back to the United States?

5. How much a night was the first room Hughes stayed in Paris?

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