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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Twenty-One, Back Home—Bullfights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the S.S. Malone's only port of call in the Azores?
(a) Hanai.
(b) Horta.
(c) Basta.
(d) Hento.

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

3. What canned meat did Frau Schultz and Hughes enjoy that had a label written in Spanish only?
(a) Lobster.
(b) Sardines.
(c) Eel.
(d) Tuna.

4. Where was Hughes's ship traveling to when he left America?
(a) South America.
(b) Africa.
(c) Anartica.
(d) India.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Hughes's relatives became Dean of the first law school at Howard University?

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

3. Where did Langston Hughes want to attend college?

4. What souvenir did Hughes jump in the bullfighting ring just after the fight to get?

5. Where did Hughes meet Frau Schultz?

(see the answer key)

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