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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are his readings canceled?
(a) Due to public outbursts.
(b) There is no place large enough hold the crowds that want to meet him.
(c) They are afraid of him.
(d) No one wants to hear him speak.

2. To where do Langston and his mother move back?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Mexico.

3. When he returned to Harlem in January of 1938, what does Langston do?
(a) He runs the Harlem Suitcase Theater.
(b) He protests the war.
(c) He helps build a theater for blacks called the Harlem Suitcase Theater.
(d) He writes a play.

4. During this time he meets with many important literary figures of what movement?
(a) The Black Wave.
(b) The Harlem Movement.
(c) The African American Movement.
(d) The Black Renaissance.

5. Where does Noel Sullivan, an old friend of Hughes', put him up?
(a) In a townhouse in San Francisco.
(b) In a cottage in Carmel, California.
(c) In a villa in Spain.
(d) In an apartment in Manhattan.

6. What has this place become?
(a) A church.
(b) A club.
(c) A theater company.
(d) A restaurant.

7. What has happened to Barcelona, right before Langston arrives?
(a) It is bombed by German and Italian aircraft.
(b) It has become a territory of Nazi Germany.
(c) It has been bombed by the the British.
(d) It is destroyed by a nuclear bomb.

8. How does Langston decide to use his pay from the film?
(a) To visit his friends in Cleveland.
(b) To travel through Asia.
(c) To travel to Paris.
(d) To travel to Russia.

9. Where does this trip south take Langston?
(a) To famous theaters.
(b) To community centers and high schools.
(c) To unversities and concert halls.
(d) To colleges, high schools, and local meeting places.

10. About what is Hughes to report?
(a) African Americans and their role in the war in Spain.
(b) African Americans and their role in World War II.
(c) The roles of American soldiers in the war in Spain.
(d) The roles of Americcan soldiers in World War II.

11. With what is Hughes' poetry often infused?
(a) Communist propaganda.
(b) African American propaganda.
(c) Anti-American propaganda.
(d) Political or religious propaganda.

12. What does Hughes purchase?
(a) A van.
(b) A Ford.
(c) A bus.
(d) A plane.

13. What does Hughes do when he returns to Moscow?
(a) He writes and sells articles about his travels in Russia.
(b) He waits for his permit to leave.
(c) He learns Russian.
(d) He meets with another movie producer to discuss creating a film about his experiences in Russia.

14. In the spring of 1937 for whom does Hughes travel to Spain as a correspondent?
(a) Time, a New York based publication.
(b) The Baltimore, a Baltimore based publication.
(c) The African American, a Baltimore based publication.
(d) The Crisis, a New York based publication.

15. After his first year at Lincoln, where does Hughes rent a room for the summer?
(a) Queens.
(b) Harlem.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Langston say he met a man named Simple?

2. When does Langston return to the United States?

3. How does this person feel about Langston's poem, "Goodbye Christ?"

4. After they return to New York City, what does Langston begin planning?

5. What does Langston think about his father?

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