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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through When the Negro Was In Vogue—Nigger Heaven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of Hughes's second book of poems?
(a) "Fine Clothes to the Jew."
(b) "One Way Out."
(c) "Harlem Dancers."
(d) "Negro Pride."

2. What neighborhood in Paris did Hughes walk through to look for a job and a place to live?
(a) The Left Bank.
(b) Place de la Concorde.
(c) Montmartre.
(d) Downtown.

3. Who were Pail Robeson, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith and Roland Hayes?
(a) Some of the musicians heard on white radio stations in the midwest.
(b) Some of the black performers part of the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s.
(c) Some of the musicians Hughes remembered seeing at the Grand Duc.
(d) Some of the musicians to arrive in Africa from Harlem in the 1920s.

4. What poem of Hughes won first prize in Witter Bynner's Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Contest in 1926?
(a) "A House in Taos."
(b) "A Raisin in the Sun."
(c) "Walking Stick."
(d) "Wandering Fool."

5. What was the name of the children's play Hughes wrote and published in the "Brownie Book"?
(a) "The Gold Watch."
(b) "The Golden Fish."
(c) "The Gold Piece."
(d) "The Golden Horse."

Short Answer Questions

1. What area of the country was discussed by Harlem artists as the new place to live?

2. In whose honor was the first burial at sea Hughes participated in?

3. Where did Hughes find a job when he returned to New York?

4. Who starred in "La Revue Negre" in Paris with Maude Russell and Claude Hopkins?

5. When did Hughes finally leave Mexico to return to America?

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