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

2. Who was shot by the German brewery-master at James Hughes's house in Mexico?
(a) A neighbor and his wife.
(b) Frau Schultz and Lotte.
(c) Frau Schultz and Gerta.
(d) Lotte and Gerta.

3. What was Sandy Hook?
(a) The place at which Hughes threw his books overboard.
(b) The place in which Highes went to school.
(c) The place at which Hughes' father lived.
(d) The place in which Hughes was born.

4. Why did Hughes have trouble writing about bullfights?
(a) He believed only Hemmingway was capable of writing about bullfights.
(b) He felt too sorry for the bulls who died.
(c) He believed they must be seen and heard to be appreciated.
(d) He had not seen enough bullfights to be able to write about them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hughes and his stepfather took Jocko to the pool hall, what happened?

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

3. Where was Hughes's ship traveling to when he left America?

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

5. In whose honor was the first burial at sea Hughes participated in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. While sailing along the African shore, what did the crew do from port to port? What did Hughes realize about the black Africans?

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

4. What was Hughes's ethnic heritage? How did this affect his travels in Africa?

5. How did Hughes convince his father to allow him to attend Columbia University in New York? When did Hughes leave Mexico for college?

6. 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?

7. Why did Hughes throw all of his books overboard while traveling to Africa? What did this act symbolize?

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

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

10. Who was Frau Schultz? What role did she play in Hughes's life?

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