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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did "Negro" mean in the United States?
(a) Someone who was a slave.
(b) Someone who had any Negro ancestry.
(c) Someone who had only Negro blood in his veins.
(d) Someone who was born in Africa and came to America.

2. Where did Hughes find work the summer after his freshman year at Columbia?
(a) At a bakery in Harlem.
(b) At a newspaper in New York City.
(c) At a truck garden on Staten Island.
(d) At a newspaper in Cleveland.

3. What did the men in Africa say to Hughes when he tried to talk to them about Marcus Garvey?
(a) They said "you are a traitor, you are not African!"
(b) They said, "you are lying to us, the South is not like AFrica!"
(c) THey said, "we do not care how difficult things are in other countries!"
(d) They said "you, white man! You, white man!"

4. Where was Langston Hughes born?
(a) Joplin, Mississippi.
(b) Hannibal, Missouri.
(c) Canton, MIssissippi.
(d) Joplin, Missouri.

5. What happened to the monkey cage the sailors built on the S.S. Malone?
(a) It was stolen by one of the passengers.
(b) It was left at the dock on the western coast.
(c) It was thrown overboard.
(d) It was broken open during a storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hughes's job on the ship across the ocean?

2. Where did Hughes's father want him to go to school to study three languages at once?

3. How did Hughes get the money for the pullman car from Washington to McKeesport?

4. How did Hughes begin earning his own money while he lived with his father?

5. How did the Africans Hughes met respond to his skin color?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Hughes picked up Jocko from the pet shop in New York? How did he raise the money to get home?

2. How did Hughes begin writing poetry? Did he like writing poetry? What was his style of poetry?

3. How did Hughes react to being thought of as Mexican on his way home from Mexico? How did he use this misidentity to his advantage?

4. What were some of the sights and sounds Hughes witnessed upon entering New York waters? How did he react to them?

5. What were the three tragedies Hughes described happening in the village before his departure back to the states?

6. What were James Hughes's plans for his son? How did they differ from what Hughes wanted for himself?

7. Who was Jocko? Where did he come from? Where did he live?

8. Who was Edward? How did Hughes meet him?

9. How did Hughes meet someone in Paris who helped him find a place to stay, and who was the person? What was the surprise Hughes found when he went up to his room?

10. What happened aboard the S.S. Malone the week before the ship reached the Virgin Islands on its return to New York?

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