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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Langston become depressed?
(a) Racism he witnesses even in the midst of disaster.
(b) He is still treated unequally.
(c) Racism is stronger now than a few years ago.
(d) He is treated worse in the south than in the north.

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

7. What does Hughes do before leaving for Paris?
(a) He fills out his will.
(b) He visits the South one last time.
(c) He says goodbye to his familly.
(d) He writes an article about preparing to leave.

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

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

10. When Fire is finally published at the end of the summer, how is it received?
(a) With positive reviews.
(b) With hostile reviews.
(c) With mixed reviews.
(d) With negative reviews.

11. Which of Hughes' works is published during this summer?
(a) Prodigal Son and Mulatto.
(b) Mulatto and A House in Taos.
(c) Prodigal Son and Not Without Laughter.
(d) A House in Taos and Not Without Laughter.

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

13. To whom is "Tomorrow's Seed" dedicated?
(a) To the American soldiers he meets.
(b) To Pablo Picasso and his work in Spain.
(c) To the Fascists.
(d) To the people of Spain.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much success does Langston have with these submissions?

2. How does Fisk College reward Hughes for reading his poems at their college?

3. What does Langston think about his father?

4. What do Langston and Zell Ingram, a friend from Cleveland, decide to do?

5. How do Langston's plays become more socially relevant?

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