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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 did Dr. Locke offer to do for Hughes while both men were in Italy?
(a) Introduce him to his sister.
(b) Publish his poems.
(c) Teach him Italian.
(d) Take him to Venice.

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

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

4. Where was Hughes robbed of his money and his passport?
(a) On the streets of Venice.
(b) In his hotel room in Genoa.
(c) On the train to the Riviera.
(d) In a restaurant in Rome.

5. Where did Hughes stay when he arrived in Italy?
(a) Place de'Cello.
(b) Estavilla.
(c) Denzenzano.
(d) Manchego.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Zora Neale Hurston attend college?

2. Why did Hughes move to Washington D.C.?

3. Who did Hughes think of during his lunch with Mr. Barnes?

4. What did an elderly graduate of Lincoln who had read Hughes's survey say to Hughes at his graduation?

5. Who arranged for Hughes to meet with Albert Barnes at the Cafe Royale near the Louvre?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was "Shuffle Along" and why was it important in the history of the Black Renaissance in Harlem of the 1920s? Who were some of the important blacks associated with music in the 1920s in Harlem.

3. How did Hughes conclude his story of the racial survey at Lincoln? What changes did he witness at the school and in how many years?

4. What event brought Hughes to the South in 1927? How did he react to the South and southern cities?

5. What happened to Hughes when his patron broke off their relationship?

6. What was "Not Without Laughter"? Why was it important in Hughes's life?

7. Why did Hughes go to Washington D.C. after landing in New York?

8. What club did white people come into Harlem to drink and listen to music? Why did Hughes not go to this club? How did most Harlem blacks feel about this club?

9. Who was Bruce? Why did he become upset at work? What happened when the boss fired him? How did this affect Hughes?

10. What poem did Hughes submit in Witter Bynner's Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Contest? How did the poem fare?

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