View a FREE sample

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 screamed at the boss and threw a chair at him.
(c) He clamly walked out of the back door and set the back of the building on fire.
(d) He threatened the boss with a sharp kitchen knife, frightening customers away.

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

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

4. Why did the manager of the Grand Duc decide to fire Bruce, the chef?
(a) Because of his negative attitude and complaints.
(b) Because customers complained of his food.
(c) Because no one who worked at the club could get along with him.
(d) Because he was always late for work.

5. How was Hughes initiated into his fraternity?
(a) With paddling so severe he could barely walk for a week.
(b) He was dressed liek a girl and paraded through campus.
(c) He was forced to drink a twelve-pack.
(d) His head was shaved with an "H" in his hair.

6. What magazine awarded Hughes his first poetry prize?
(a) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(b) The National Urban League.
(c) The National Library.
(d) The National Educators Association.

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

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

9. 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 musicians to arrive in Africa from Harlem in the 1920s.
(c) Some of the black performers part of the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s.
(d) Some of the musicians Hughes remembered seeing at the Grand Duc.

10. What was the name of Hughes's first novel?
(a) "Not Without Tribulations."
(b) "Not Without Regrets."
(c) "Not Without Laughter."
(d) "Not Without Tears."

11. 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) Dr. Locke invited Hughes to spend the summer with him in Rome.
(d) The Grand Duc closed for the summer until September.

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

13. What did an elderly graduate of Lincoln who had read Hughes's survey say to Hughes at his graduation?
(a) "You don't get things out of white folks that way."
(b) "The only way to catch flies is with honey."
(c) "If you break the social rules, you won't get anywhere."
(d) "You won't get any solutions that way."

14. Who was singing "everybody loves my baby, but my baby don't love no one but me" at the NAACP fundraiser Hughes attended?
(a) Bricktop Annie.
(b) Bessie Smith.
(c) Alberta Hunter.
(d) Josephine Baker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Hughes live in Washington D.C.?

2. What made Hughes the "town curiosity" while he was in Italy?

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

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

5. Where did Hughes stay when he arrived in Italy?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 702 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample