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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the "Interstate Tattler?"
(a) A jazz gossip rag.
(b) A weekly black newspaper.
(c) A respected black column in the New York Times.
(d) A monthly black magazine.

2. Who were Luigi and Romeo?
(a) Two friends of Bricktop Ada Smith.
(b) The two owners of the Grand Duc.
(c) The barman and the waiter of the Grand Duc.
(d) Two men with whom Hughes shared an apartment building.

3. What was the name of the poem that won Hughes his first poetry prize?
(a) "The Black Walking Stick."
(b) "The Weary Blues."
(c) "The Blues Woman."
(d) "The Black Man's Blues."

4. Who sang at A'Lelia Walker's funeral?
(a) The Four Seasons.
(b) The Four Quartets.
(c) The Four Soul Sisters.
(d) The Four Bon Bons.

5. What were some of the stops Hughes's ship made while on its route to and from Havana?
(a) New York, Miami, or Key Largo.
(b) Jamaica, Key West, or Miami.
(c) Jamaica, Haiti, or Panama.
(d) Miami, Key West, or Panama.

6. How did Dr. Alain Locke find Hughes in Paris?
(a) He found out from Sonya.
(b) He got his address from the magazine Crisis.
(c) He spoke with Hughes' mother in New York.
(d) He looked him up in the phone book.

7. Why did Hughes say he loved his patron?
(a) She was a wealthy woman who spent her money on frivilous things.
(b) She was a beautiful, young, and intelligent woman.
(c) She was a negative woman but she took interest in living things.
(d) She was thoughtful of him, interested in what he wanted to do, kind, and generous.

8. Who wrote the play "The Mule Bone?"
(a) Zora Hurston.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes.
(d) Rowena Jelliffe.

9. What did Hughes do with the twenty dollars he received from Crisis for his story?
(a) He ate a large steak at a fine restaurant.
(b) He spent it all on food and liquor for himself and his friends.
(c) He saw Jeanne Eagels in "Rain" and then "What Price Glory."
(d) He saved it to give to his mother.

10. Who starred in "La Revue Negre" in Paris with Maude Russell and Claude Hopkins?
(a) Carolyn Dudley.
(b) Rudolph Fisher.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Josephine Baker.

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

12. Where did Hughes attend college at the height of the Negro Renaissance?
(a) New Yor University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Lincoln Universtiy.
(d) Howard University.

13. Who was A'Lelia Walker?
(a) A society woman who gave frequent and grand parties.
(b) A singer in a Harlem nightclub.
(c) The wife of an important politician.
(d) A patron of the arts who hired Hughes to write for her.

14. Why did Hughes want to return to college?
(a) To earn more money.
(b) To become part of Washington black society.
(c) To get a better background for writing.
(d) To get a better job at the Library of Congress.

15. What was "Fire?"
(a) A magazine started by John Davis to expose new black writers.
(b) A "Quarterly for Negro Intellectuals" first published in 1927.
(c) A book written by Wallace Thurman.
(d) A "Negro Quarterly of the Arts" published by Hughes and other influential blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Hughes's second book of poems?

2. Who was the first company to publish a book of Hughes's poetry?

3. How did Hughes compare talking with Mr. Barnes about art?

4. Why did the manager of the Grand Duc decide to fire Bruce, the chef?

5. When Hughes wrote "The Big Sea," how many years had passed since he had worked on his survey?

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