2. What is significant about Jesse B. Simple?
(a) He is a simple man, like many people.
(b) It is the longest running and perhaps greatest influence on the black community.
(c) His poem is the most published of all African American writings.
(d) He is very influential in Langston's life.

3. With what difficult position is Langston posed?
(a) Teaching in a school in which he does not want to be.
(b) Writing material he has no interest in writing.
(c) Not having time to write all that he wishes to write.
(d) Wanting to write but needing to make money.

4. What happens to the musical revue for which Langston works as a song lyricist?
(a) It is very successful.
(b) It has a small amount of success.
(c) It is never seen.
(d) It closes after only one performance.

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

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

7. Who does Langston meet in Ashkhabad?
(a) A reporter named Arthur Koestler.
(b) A dancer who becomes his girlfriend.
(c) A reporter named Allan Cumming.
(d) An actress who is also a writer.

8. What does Langston receive for "Not Without Laughter?"
(a) A one thousand dollar prize.
(b) A four thousand dollar prize.
(c) A one hundred dollar prize.
(d) A four hundred dollar prize.

9. For how long does "Don't You Want to Be Free?" run?
(a) Two hundred and twenty-five consecutive performances.
(b) One hundred and fifteen consecutive performances.
(c) One hundred and thirty-five consecutive performances.
(d) Nintey-five consecutive performances.

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

11. Who is Jesse B. Simple?
(a) Langston's best friend.
(b) A character in one of Langston's poems.
(c) One of Langston's characters.
(d) A member of the Black Renaissance that Langston had met.

12. After they return to New York City, what does Langston begin planning?
(a) A trip to Paris.
(b) A tour in Asia.
(c) Another job on a ship.
(d) A poetry-reading tour.

13. Who gives Langston a thousand dollar grant?
(a) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(b) The member of the Black Renaissance.
(c) The Rosenwood Fund.
(d) His father.

14. Where does Hughes live in Barcelona?
(a) Far from the fighting.
(b) In a tiny, quiet village.
(c) Near the front line.
(d) In a resort.

15. 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) Gary, Indiana.
(b) Detroit, Michigan.
(c) Indianapolis, Indiana.
(d) Hammond, Indiana.