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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 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."

2. 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 decided to move to Italy.
(c) Because he finally made enough money to afford a better apartment.
(d) Because he missed Mary and needed to leave their apartment.

3. What did Locke want to talk with Hughes about during their lunch together in Paris?
(a) He wanted to talk to Hughes about literary life in Paris.
(b) He wanted to read some of Hughes's poetry.
(c) He wanted to learn more about the Left Bank in Paris.
(d) He wanted to offer Hughes a job in New York.

4. How did Hughes learn to wait tables and serve drinks?
(a) Bricktop Ada Smith taught him in her downtime.
(b) Luigi and Romeo taught him at the Grand Duc.
(c) No one; he already knew how to do this.
(d) Bruce taught him after the fight at the bar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one hazing experience Hughes related in his discussion of college?

3. Where did Hughes meet Vachel Lindsay?

4. What was the name of the poem that won Hughes his first poetry prize?

5. What was the name of the ship Hughes found in New Orleans traveling to Havana?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hughes's patron feel about black in America? How did this manifest itself in her relationship with Hughes?

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

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

4. 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.

5. What survey did Hughes conduct at his college during his senior year? Why was this issue important to Hughes?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. Where did Hughes attend college during the 1920s? When was the college founded and by whom? Where is the college located?

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