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

2. When Hughes and his stepfather took Jocko to the pool hall, what happened?
(a) Jocko picked the pockets of the men in the pool hall.
(b) Jocko went home with another family.
(c) Jocko destroyed the pool table pad and his stepfather had to replace it.
(d) Jocko broke a tray of glasses and was kicked out of the poolhall.

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

4. 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 introduced to Sonya.
(d) The man Hughes met in Paris who helped Hughes find a job.

5. How much a night was the first room Hughes stayed in Paris?
(a) Fifty cents a night.
(b) Two dollars a night.
(c) Five dollars a night.
(d) One dollar a night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "mother ship?"

2. Where did Hughes go to see the bullfights in Mexico?

3. Who was the famous bullfighter visiting from Spain when Hughes was in Mexico?

4. What is the name of the famous poem Hughes wrote on the train trip to Mexico?

5. Where did Hughes find a job when he returned to New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Hughes when he, his mother, and his grandmother went to Mexico? Why did they go there, and when did they return?

2. What was the ritual on the S.S. Malone when the ship crossed the equator?

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. Describe Hughes's childhood. With whom did he live? How did he begin to be a reader? Where did he attend school?

5. What did Hughes notice about the way Mexicans and Negros were treated differently, particularly on his way home from Mexico to Cleveland, Ohio?

6. Who was Florence Embry Jones? Who were some of the musicians Hughes heard because of Florence?

7. After leaving college, what jobs did Hughes try to get? What job did he end up getting?

8. Who were the Reeds? Why did Hughes know them? What important event in Hughes's life as a young child happened while he knew the Reeds?

9. Who did Hughes stand in line to see at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York? What did he think of the performance?

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

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