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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who did Hughes think of during his lunch with Mr. Barnes?
(a) His high school art teacher.
(b) His family in New York.
(c) His first poetry teacher at Columbia.
(d) His girlfriend Mary.

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

5. What was the name of the ship Hughes found in New Orleans traveling to Havana?
(a) The Nardo.
(b) The Havana.
(c) The Cuban.
(d) The Chiquita.

6. What made Hughes the "town curiosity" while he was in Italy?
(a) He was a black man.
(b) He was very shy.
(c) He was tall.
(d) He was an American.

7. What did Locke want to talk with Hughes about during their lunch together in Paris?
(a) He wanted to learn more about the Left Bank in Paris.
(b) He wanted to read some of Hughes's poetry.
(c) He wanted to talk to Hughes about literary life in Paris.
(d) He wanted to offer Hughes a job in New York.

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

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

10. When did Hughes write his first novel?
(a) During the summer of his junior year at Columbia.
(b) During the summer of his sophomore year at Yale.
(c) During the summer of his junior year at Lincoln.
(d) During the summer of his senior year at Howard.

11. What did Hughes by in a shop on Poydras Street that found him on his way to Havana the next day?
(a) Wishing Powder.
(b) Good Luck Powder.
(c) Go-and-Stay Powder.
(d) Voodoo Powder.

12. What new hotel opened in New York, did not allow Negroes to work or to stay as guests, that inspired Hughes to write a poem about it?
(a) The St. Regis Hotel.
(b) The Waldorf-Astoria.
(c) The Dorchester Hotel.
(d) The Ritz Hotel.

13. How did Hughes meet Bricktop Ada Smith?
(a) She was the new singer hired at the Grand Duc.
(b) She was a fellow Metro rider every morning.
(c) She was the new tenant in his building.
(d) She was a waitress in his favorite coffee house.

14. How did Hughes compare talking with Mr. Barnes about art?
(a) Like dining with a food critic.
(b) Like taking a college class.
(c) Like drinking fine wine.
(d) Like talking business with his father.

15. How did Hughes describe the Saturday night rent parties he attended?
(a) Spontaneous music, laughter, good fried fish, and bootlegged whiskey.
(b) Boring evenings with too many people packed in too small a space.
(c) Cigar smoking, whiskey drinking womanizing.
(d) Well known musicians performing for poor blacks to raise rent money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was "Shuffle Along?"

2. What did Dr. Locke offer to do for Hughes while both men were in Italy?

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

4. How was Bricktop Ada known among her followers?

5. Who wrote the play "The Mule Bone?"

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