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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Langston return to the United States?
(a) In the midst of the Great Depression.
(b) Before the Great Depression.
(c) A week after the Crash.
(d) After the Great Depression.

2. What does his mother receive while they are there?
(a) Good care at a reasonable price from a black physician.
(b) Cancer treatments.
(c) News about her sister.
(d) A letter from his stepfather.

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

4. What happens when Hughes wakes the next morning?
(a) His father calls him.
(b) He receives a letter from his mother saying his father is dead.
(c) He receives a telgram saying his father is dead.
(d) His father is ill.

5. Where does Langston tour for the entirety of the summer?
(a) The American West.
(b) The American Southwest.
(c) Mexico.
(d) The American South.

6. Why does Hughes ask for a loan from Knopf, his publisher?
(a) For the completion of a book of short stories.
(b) For the completion of his autobiography.
(c) For the completion of a book of poems.
(d) For the completion of his poems about Spain.

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

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

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

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

11. Does Langston read his poetry at this luncheon?
(a) Just one poem.
(b) Some of it.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

12. Who does Simple represent?
(a) The famous black Americans.
(b) The average African American trying to make it in a white society.
(c) The members of the Black Renaissance.
(d) Artists.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hughes do when he returns to Moscow?

2. When Fire is finally published at the end of the summer, how is it received?

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

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

5. Who is Jesse B. Simple?

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