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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hughes become involved with anti-war campaigns?
(a) Speaking to people at rallies.
(b) Advertisements for the radio.
(c) Writing and handing out pamphlets to the public.
(d) Writing advertisements for billboards.

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

3. When does the first Simple story appear in the Chicago Defender?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1963.

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

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

6. What does Mrs. Bethune ask Langston to do for her students?
(a) Read some of his poetry to them.
(b) Write a poem about them.
(c) Teach them a poetry lesson.
(d) Encourage them to be writers.

7. Where does the incident occur where the colored teachers of a school were told they'd be fired if Hughes, an assumed Communist, read his poetry?
(a) Hammond, Indiana.
(b) Detroit, Michigan.
(c) Gary, Indiana.
(d) Indianapolis, Indiana.

8. Is Langston interested in teaching after he has graduated college?
(a) At first.
(b) A little.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

9. How does Fisk College reward Hughes for reading his poems at their college?
(a) With free college tuition.
(b) With an article in the local paper.
(c) In a large fee.
(d) With a thank you dinner.

10. What does this group of individuals decide to create?
(a) A black academy called the Renaissance Academy.
(b) A black theater called the Apollo Theatre.
(c) A black magazine of the arts called Fire.
(d) A black university called New Negro College.

11. How is "The Big Sea" received by many critics?
(a) Warmly.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Only slightly.

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

13. Why do Lucas and Hughes spend most of their evenings as guests in black households?
(a) They do not feel comfortable staying in hotels.
(b) They do not trust white people.
(c) They are often unwelcome in hotels.
(d) They are welcomed by the communities they visit.

14. How much success does Langston have with these submissions?
(a) Little.
(b) Much.
(c) No.
(d) Overwhelming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Langston return to the United States?

2. Who is Aimie Semple McPherson?

3. When do Langston and his friend set off for the South?

4. Into what language are Langston's poems translated?

5. Where does this trip south take Langston?

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