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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In New Orleans, what job does Hughes take?
(a) A job as a petty officer on a freighter traveling to Cuba.
(b) As a mess boy on a freighter traveling to Cuba.
(c) As a petty officer on a freighter to Havana.
(d) A job as a mess boy on a freighter traveling to Havana.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hughes find the script, which was written by a Russian?

2. When does the first Simple story appear in the Chicago Defender?

3. Why do Lucas and Hughes spend most of their evenings as guests in black households?

4. Who does Langston meet in Ashkhabad?

5. Who does Simple represent?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Jesse B. Simple?

2. What poetry does Hughes write during this summer?

3. What does Langston do when he returns to Harlem?

4. What does Langston do after his first year at Lincoln?

5. Describe Langston's poetry-reading tour.

6. What difficulties exist for Langston after graduation?

7. What is significant about Jesse B. Simple?

8. What happens to the movie for which Hughes had been asked to become a writer?

9. What does Aimie Semple McPherson say about Langston?

10. What does Langston do upon returning to the United States?

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