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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bruce the chef's reaction to being fired from the Grand Duc?
(a) He left without saying a word to anyone.
(b) He threatened the boss with a sharp kitchen knife, frightening customers away.
(c) He clamly walked out of the back door and set the back of the building on fire.
(d) He screamed at the boss and threw a chair at him.

2. Who did Countee Cullen marry?
(a) Yolande DuBois, daughter of W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) Yolande Becton, daughter of the Reverend Becton.
(c) Yolande Lincoln, granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Yolanda Mills, daughter of Florence Mills.

3. Who did Hughes bump into in New Orleans from his days in Harlem?
(a) Bricktop Ada Smith.
(b) Louis ARmstrong.
(c) Zora Hurston.
(d) Buddy Miles..

4. What did Hughes hope to prove in his study of Lincoln University?
(a) That having no black men on the faculty was good for the students' education.
(b) That having an all white faculty was fostering an inferiority complex in black men.
(c) That there were no competent black instructors at the school.
(d) That having an all white faculty made students feel secure.

5. Who was the first company to publish a book of Hughes's poetry?
(a) Eden Books.
(b) Modern Library.
(c) Simon and Schuster.
(d) Alfred A. Knopf.

6. Why did Hughes take the summer off from the Grand Duc to go to Italy in the summer?
(a) Hughes was fired from his job.
(b) Dr. Locke invited Hughes to spend the summer with him in Rome.
(c) Hughes met a woman and followed her to England.
(d) The Grand Duc closed for the summer until September.

7. What college did Hughes cite as having an all-black faculty?
(a) Urbana.
(b) Grandlock.
(c) Tuskegee.
(d) Fisk.

8. Who did Rudolph Fisher sing with while he was in college?
(a) Josephine Baker.
(b) Paul Robeson.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Besie Smith.

9. Where did Hughes meet Vachel Lindsay?
(a) At a formal reception for a local black poet.
(b) On Seventh Street.
(c) At a NAACP function.
(d) At the Wardman Park Hotel.

10. How did Hughes learn to wait tables and serve drinks?
(a) Bricktop Ada Smith taught him in her downtime.
(b) Bruce taught him after the fight at the bar.
(c) No one; he already knew how to do this.
(d) Luigi and Romeo taught him at the Grand Duc.

11. What job did Hughes finally find once he moved to Washington D.C,?
(a) He worked as an editor at a publishing house.
(b) He worked as a messenger for the newspaper.
(c) He worked for a wet wash laundry.
(d) He worked as a page at the Library of Congress.

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

13. Why did Hughes disembark from the boat trip up the Saguenay River to see the northern lights?
(a) The steward insisted he take his dinner in the kitchen.
(b) The captain refused to let him aboard the ship because he was black.
(c) The captain refused to allow him to stay in his paid-for accomodations.
(d) The steward refused to seat him for dinner until the white passengers had eaten.

14. When Hughes wrote "The Big Sea," how many years had passed since he had worked on his survey?
(a) Eighteen years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Twenty five years.

15. Why did Hughes return to New Orleans and leave his job on the ship running to and from Havana?
(a) He ran out of money and needed to earn some for school.
(b) He grew bored with the route of the ship.
(c) School was starting and he wanted to spend the rest of his time in New Orleans,
(d) He became tired of the Chinese men on board the ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was singing "everybody loves my baby, but my baby don't love no one but me" at the NAACP fundraiser Hughes attended?

2. What was the name of the poem that won Hughes his first poetry prize?

3. When did Hughes write his first novel?

4. What was one hazing experience Hughes related in his discussion of college?

5. How did Dr. Alain Locke find Hughes in Paris?

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