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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alma Mater—Post Script.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was "Shuffle Along?"
(a) A song written for Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong.
(b) A musical review in which only men performed in night clubs.
(c) A musical review that marked the beginning of the Negro Renaissance.
(d) A song published in 1928 that became the anthem for Harlem.

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

3. Who did Countee Cullen marry?
(a) Yolande DuBois, daughter of W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) Yolanda Mills, daughter of Florence Mills.
(c) Yolande Becton, daughter of the Reverend Becton.
(d) Yolande Lincoln, granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln.

4. Which of Hughes's relatives became Dean of the first law school at Howard University?
(a) His great uncle.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His grandfather's brother.
(d) His grandmother's brother.

5. Who was A'Lelia Walker?
(a) A singer in a Harlem nightclub.
(b) The wife of an important politician.
(c) A patron of the arts who hired Hughes to write for her.
(d) A society woman who gave frequent and grand parties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Bruce?

2. What was the "Interstate Tattler?"

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

4. When did Wallace Thurman die?

5. What is the name of the famous poem Hughes wrote on the train trip to Mexico?

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