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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are among Langston's classmates?
(a) Etheridge Knight and Cab Calloway.
(b) Alice Walker and Etheridge Knight.
(c) Thurgood Marshall and Alice Walker.
(d) Cab Calloway and Thurgood Marshall.

2. Where do Langston's poems continue to appear?
(a) In the Black Renaissance.
(b) In Fire.
(c) In The Crisis.
(d) In Columbia University's paper.

3. Describe Hughes' family history.
(a) Exciting.
(b) Uneducated.
(c) Abusive.
(d) Mixed.

4. Why is this summer called the 'Red Summer?'
(a) Because the fear of Communism has spread like wildfire.
(b) Because of the violence against blacks that ensues in the post war environment.
(c) Because the summer has record high temperatures.
(d) Because many Chinese are moving to the country.

5. Why is Lincoln known as the "black Princeton?"
(a) Many of the white faculty had gone to Princeton.
(b) Many of the black students would later attend graduate school at Princeton.
(c) The courses are similar to those at Princeton.
(d) Many of the black faculty had gone to Princeton.

6. Has Langston become interested in writing?
(a) Not yet.
(b) Some.
(c) Yes, just recently.
(d) Yes.

7. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?
(a) Go to church every Sunday.
(b) Clean the house every Saturday.
(c) Babysit her children.
(d) Read every night.

8. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?
(a) He is elected editor of the yearbook and class poet.
(b) He joins the track team.
(c) He is prom king.
(d) He becomes class president.

9. Of what is Langston in search when he returns to New York?
(a) A job.
(b) Another sailing vessel.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A theater for which to write.

10. What courses does Hughes take?
(a) Theater and music.
(b) Literature and theater.
(c) Music and literature.
(d) Education and literature.

11. What does Langston think about his job as a doorman at a nightclub?
(a) It is unsatisfying.
(b) It is exciting.
(c) It is fine.
(d) It is satisfying.

12. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?
(a) Yes.
(b) No, because he transfers to NYU.
(c) No, but he attends graduate school there.
(d) No.

13. Who is Langston's only friend at Columbia?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Chun.
(c) Marcos.
(d) Juan.

14. What is the S.S. West Hesseltine?
(a) A sailboat headed to Africa.
(b) A private yacht headed to Africa.
(c) A freighter headed to Africa.
(d) A cruise ship headed to Africa.

15. Whose poems does Langston like?
(a) Only George Barker and Thomas Campbell.
(b) Only Richard Aldington and James Alexander Allan.
(c) Only Longellow and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Only Alan Davies and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where will he be joining these people?

2. Who does Langston tell that his sickness derives from a hatred of his father?

3. Who does Langston's grandmother take Langston to hear at the university?

4. From whom is his mother's grandfather supposedly descended?

5. In what activity is Hughes involved?

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