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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Twenty-One,Tragedy at Toluca—Time to Leave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hughes begin earning his own money while he lived with his father?
(a) He got a job in a store.
(b) He got a job cleaning stables.
(c) He began training horses.
(d) He began teaching English lessons.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Where did Hughes meet Frau Schultz?
(a) At his father's home in Toluca.
(b) In the diner car of the train.
(c) In St Louis at the train station.
(d) On the train to Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the S.S. Malone finally put in?

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

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

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

5. Where was George from?

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