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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. Why did Hughes turn down Alain Locke's request to meet with him?
(a) He was afraid.
(b) He was busy.
(c) He was frustrated.
(d) He was angry.

2. What souvenir did Hughes jump in the bullfighting ring just after the fight to get?
(a) The matador's hat.
(b) Golden sword handle.
(c) The matador's cape.
(d) Golden banderillas.

3. Where did Hughes find a job when he returned to New York?
(a) Working on a ship bound for Africa.
(b) Working on a ship bound for Bali.
(c) Working on a ship bound for China.
(d) Working on a ship bound for Constantinople and Odessa.

4. About what incident did Hughes write the poem "African Fog?"
(a) Black men singing as the captain rang evening bells.
(b) Men singing while they loaded cattle onto the S.S.Malone.
(c) Oarsmen singing as the S.S. Malone took up anchor and left the port.
(d) Black boatmen unloading cargo in the fog and singing their songs.

5. How did the Africans Hughes met respond to his skin color?
(a) They thought he was a Mexican.
(b) They did not consider him a mess boy.
(c) They did not consider him a Negro.
(d) They thought he was an American Indian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Hughes go to live when he was in second grade?

3. What did the men in Africa say to Hughes when he tried to talk to them about Marcus Garvey?

4. How did Hughes's father feel about Negroes?

5. How did Hughes think poems were like rainbows?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hughes go about earning money in Mexico? What were his plans for the money he earned there?

2. 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?

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

4. What was Hughes's life like during his senior year in high school, which was also the end of the war?

5. What were the contents of the one box Hughes brought with him on the ship? What was he thinking about as he threw the contents of the box off of the S.S. Malone into the ocean?

6. 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?

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

8. Where did Hughes find a more permanent job in Paris? What were his initial job duties? What important new perk did this job offer him?

9. How long did it take Hughes to find work in Paris? What job did he finally get? What was his pay?

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

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