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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Hughes move to Washington D.C.?
(a) His wife asked if they could move there to be near her family.
(b) He wanted to work at a famous restaurant.
(c) His family was there and invited him to come.
(d) He wanted to learn more about politics.

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

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

5. 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) Cigar smoking, whiskey drinking womanizing.
(d) Spontaneous music, laughter, good fried fish, and bootlegged whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bruce the chef's reaction to being fired from the Grand Duc?

2. Why did Hughes want to return to college?

3. What did Hughes do with the twenty dollars he received from Crisis for his story?

4. What did Hughes hope to prove in his study of Lincoln University?

5. What job did Hughes finally find once he moved to Washington D.C,?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Annette, and why was she fired from the Grand Duc? What happened on her last night at the club?

2. How did Hughes compare Bricktop Ada Smith and Florence? How were the two women different?

3. Why did Hughes travel to Italy for the summer? Where did he stay?

4. What happened to Hughes on his was back to France that changed his travel plans?

5. What was hazing at Lincoln University? What kinds of things did hazing involve? What was Hughes's initiation ritual for his fraternity?

6. Who did Hughes call the "great Harlem party giver?" How did Hughes describe the parties and the hostess?

7. What was the "Messenger"? Who ran it? Why was the editor and the "Messenger" important to Hughes?

8. Who was Gladys Bentley? How did Hughes describe her?

9. How did Hughes describe the wedding of Countee Cullen? Why was the wedding the talk of Harlem for a time? How was Hughes involved?

10. What benefit cabaret was hosted by the NAACP to which Hughes was invited? Who did he meet there? Who was singing at the club when he entered?

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