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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?

2. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?

3. What does Langston learn at this community center?

4. Where do Langston's poems continue to appear?

5. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Langston when he goes to a cafeteria with a white friend?

2. How does Langston end up meeting the editors of The Crisis?

3. What does Langston do after dropping out of Columbia?

4. Describe Lincoln.

5. What does Langston do, now that he has become interested in social issues?

6. What does Langston do while at Lincoln?

7. How is Langston treated in Africa?

8. What happens when Langston becomes a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel?

9. How does Langston get the opportunity to travel to Africa? What does he do, as he travels across the ocean?

10. What happens when Langston's mother performs at church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A theme found in much of Hughes' work is the optimism of humor.

Part 1) How is this a theme?

Part 2) How is humor optimistic? What does this reveal about Hughes?

Part 3) How might this theme draw readers to Hughes' work?

Essay Topic 2

Hughes is a sociologist.

Part 1) How do you know this?

Part 2) How does his curiosity about society get him into trouble? Why does it get him into trouble?

Part 3) How does he use this interest in sociology affect his poetry, as well as his popularity as an artist?

Essay Topic 3

One of this text's themes regards the division between black and white.

Part 1)How is this theme revealed in Langston's family?

Part 2) How does this theme surface throughout the book?

Part 3) How is there irony in this theme when Langston travels to Africa?

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