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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much a night was the first room Hughes stayed in Paris?
(a) Fifty cents a night.
(b) Two dollars a night.
(c) Five dollars a night.
(d) One dollar a night.

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

4. What was Marcus Garvey known as in Africa?
(a) The man who would stop unfair trade packages between Africa and other countries.
(b) The man who would unify the black world and free Africa.
(c) The man who would bring Africans to America as free men.
(d) The man who would liberate the black man in America.

5. What neighborhood in Paris did Hughes walk through to look for a job and a place to live?
(a) Montmartre.
(b) Place de la Concorde.
(c) The Left Bank.
(d) Downtown.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was Hughes supposed to win by spending the night on the haunted ship?

2. Why did Hughes turn down Alain Locke's request to meet with him?

3. Who did Hughes say was the one professor who he was interested in at Columbia?

4. How many ports along the west African shore did the S.S. Malone visit?

5. What was the S.S. Malone's only port of call in the Azores?

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