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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What famous dance did the black dancers from America bring with them to Paris?
(a) The Vienesse Waltz.
(b) The Cha Cha.
(c) The Tango.
(d) The Charleston.

3. What was Troutbeck?
(a) The name of the new college for black students in Memphis.
(b) The last name of Hughes' wife.
(c) The old farm of John Burroughs the naturalist.
(d) The kind of fish Hughes caught on his summer vacations.

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

5. What did Hughes refer to as the "years of Manhattan's black Renaissance"?
(a) The 1920's.
(b) The early 1900's.
(c) The turn of the century.
(d) The 1930's.

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

7. At Hughes's college, what was the racial makeup of the faculty?
(a) Half white and half black.
(b) All black.
(c) All white.
(d) Mixed ethnicities.

8. How did Hughes describe the cockroaches in New Orleans?
(a) They were the size of mice.
(b) They were small but noisy.
(c) They were loud and some of them flew through the air.
(d) They were the size of Buicks.

9. Who came to Annette's rescue at fight at the Grand Duc?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Florence.
(c) Sonya.
(d) Joe.

10. Who were Pail Robeson, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith and Roland Hayes?
(a) Some of the musicians Hughes remembered seeing at the Grand Duc.
(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 black performers part of the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s.

11. Why did Hughes decide to move from his apartment to an attic room up the hill?
(a) Because Bob, the drug addict, was frightening him.
(b) Because he finally made enough money to afford a better apartment.
(c) Because he decided to move to Italy.
(d) Because he missed Mary and needed to leave their apartment.

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

13. How did Hughes meet the woman who was to become his patron?
(a) He met her at the Lincoln University library.
(b) He was introduced to her by a friend in New York.
(c) The Sprinarns referred him to her.
(d) He met her at the Metropolitian Opera House.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Rudolph Fisher sing with while he was in college?

3. Who was A'Lelia Walker?

4. In his anecdote about the strawberry greens at dinner, what had the other diners done with the green stems?

5. What college did Hughes cite as having an all-black faculty?

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