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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. After he returned to America from Italy, how much did Hughes figure his first European trip had cost him?
(a) Seventy dollars and fifty cents.
(b) Five dollars and fifty cents.
(c) Two hundred dollars.
(d) Six dollars and seventy five cents.

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

3. What job did Hughes finally find once he moved to Washington D.C,?
(a) He worked as a page at the Library of Congress.
(b) He worked as an editor at a publishing house.
(c) He worked for a wet wash laundry.
(d) He worked as a messenger for the newspaper.

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

5. How did Dr. Alain Locke find Hughes in Paris?
(a) He spoke with Hughes' mother in New York.
(b) He looked him up in the phone book.
(c) He got his address from the magazine Crisis.
(d) He found out from Sonya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Troutbeck?

2. When Hughes entered Lincoln, what was the racial make-up of the Board of Trustees?

3. What did Hughes say was a "big sea full of fish?"

4. For what was Mr. Barnes known in America?

5. Where did Hughes stay when he was in New Orleans on his trip in 1927?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What poem did Hughes submit to "Opportunity" magazine owned by the National Urban League? What was the poem about? What happened to the poem that changes Hughes's life?

5. 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?

6. What did Florence do after the brawl at the Grand Duc? How did this affect the club and what did the owner finally do?

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

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

9. What other meeting did Dr. Locke arrange for Hughes before leaving town?

10. When an alum of the college met Hughes, how did he react to Hughes's survey concerning having black faculty at Lincoln?

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