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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the men in Africa say to Hughes when he tried to talk to them about Marcus Garvey?
(a) They said, "you are lying to us, the South is not like AFrica!"
(b) They said "you, white man! You, white man!"
(c) THey said, "we do not care how difficult things are in other countries!"
(d) They said "you are a traitor, you are not African!"

2. Who did Hughes want to see performing at the Metropolitan Opera House upon his return to New York?
(a) Eleonore Danton.
(b) Eleonora Duse.
(c) Ilene Austin.
(d) Ellen Mayfield.

3. What did Hughes's father decide he should study in school?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Farming and ranching.
(c) Mining engineering.
(d) Mechanical engineering.

4. What was Sandy Hook?
(a) The place in which Hughes was born.
(b) The place at which Hughes' father lived.
(c) The place at which Hughes threw his books overboard.
(d) The place in which Highes went to school.

5. What happened to the monkey cage the sailors built on the S.S. Malone?
(a) It was left at the dock on the western coast.
(b) It was broken open during a storm.
(c) It was stolen by one of the passengers.
(d) It was thrown overboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much a night was the first room Hughes stayed in Paris?

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

3. How did Hughes get the money for the pullman car from Washington to McKeesport?

4. How did Hughes think poems were like rainbows?

5. Where did Hughes's ship land on Christmas eve in 1923?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hughes react to being thought of as Mexican on his way home from Mexico? How did he use this misidentity to his advantage?

2. Who were the Reeds? Why did Hughes know them? What important event in Hughes's life as a young child happened while he knew the Reeds?

3. Who was Jocko? Where did he come from? Where did he live?

4. What happened to Hughes when he, his mother, and his grandmother went to Mexico? Why did they go there, and when did they return?

5. What were some of the sights and sounds Hughes witnessed upon entering New York waters? How did he react to them?

6. What was Hughes's life like during his senior year in high school, which was also the end of the war?

7. Why did Hughes throw all of his books overboard while traveling to Africa? What did this act symbolize?

8. Who was Edward? How did Hughes meet him?

9. Who was Florence Embry Jones? Who were some of the musicians Hughes heard because of Florence?

10. What happened aboard the S.S. Malone the week before the ship reached the Virgin Islands on its return to New York?

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