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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When the Negro Was In Vogue—Nigger Heaven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the S.S. Malone finally put in?
(a) Dakar.
(b) Suilee.
(c) Sanswan.
(d) Azores.

2. Where did Hughes go to live when he was in second grade?
(a) With his grandmother in Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) With his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas.
(c) With his aunt in Kansas City, Missouri.
(d) With his uncle in Brooklyn, New York.

3. How did Hughes describe the Saturday night rent parties he attended?
(a) Boring evenings with too many people packed in too small a space.
(b) Spontaneous music, laughter, good fried fish, and bootlegged whiskey.
(c) Cigar smoking, whiskey drinking womanizing.
(d) Well known musicians performing for poor blacks to raise rent money.

4. 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 in a store.
(c) He got a job cleaning stables.
(d) He began training horses.

5. What did Hughes's ship take from Africa back to the United States?
(a) Palm oil, cocoa beans, and mahogany.
(b) Silver, gold, and diamonds.
(c) Mahogany, ammunition, and gold.
(d) Spices, clothing, and mahogany.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What made Hughes the "town curiosity" while he was in Italy?

3. How did the Africans Hughes met respond to his skin color?

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

5. Who was A'Lelia Walker?

(see the answer key)

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