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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Big Sea, Africa—Standee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were George and Ramon?
(a) Hughes's bunk mates.
(b) Hughes's friends in New York.
(c) Hughes's brothers.
(d) Hughes's classmates.

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

3. What did the sailors do on the first day out of the harbor on the way to Africa?
(a) Meet with the captain.
(b) Pick up their assignments.
(c) Cook a meal.
(d) Clean up the ship.

4. Why was the dormitory director at Columbia reluctant to give Hughes his room?
(a) Because they had transferred him to another dormitory.
(b) Because they could not find his room reservation.
(c) Because they had not received his room reservation.
(d) Because they realized he was black, not Mexican.

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 thought he was a Mexican.
(d) They did not consider him a Negro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was in the third box Nagary showed to Hughes and Pey the evening they spent in Burutu?

2. About what incident did Hughes write the poem "African Fog?"

3. Where did Hughes's father want him to go to school to study three languages at once?

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

5. Where did Hughes, his mother, and his grandmother go to meet his father?

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