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

2. How long did Hughes live in Washington D.C.?
(a) One year.
(b) Three years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two years.

3. Why did Hughes decide to move from his apartment to an attic room up the hill?
(a) Because he decided to move to Italy.
(b) Because he missed Mary and needed to leave their apartment.
(c) Because he finally made enough money to afford a better apartment.
(d) Because Bob, the drug addict, was frightening him.

4. Who were Pail Robeson, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith and Roland Hayes?
(a) Some of the musicians to arrive in Africa from Harlem in the 1920s.
(b) Some of the musicians heard on white radio stations in the midwest.
(c) Some of the musicians Hughes remembered seeing at the Grand Duc.
(d) Some of the black performers part of the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Countee Cullen marry?

2. Who was singing "everybody loves my baby, but my baby don't love no one but me" at the NAACP fundraiser Hughes attended?

3. What did Hughes by in a shop on Poydras Street that found him on his way to Havana the next day?

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

5. Who came to Annette's rescue at fight at the Grand Duc?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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 were some of the places in Italy Hughes saw aboard the ship headed for New York? What happened to him in Valencia?

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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.

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

10. Where was the Interracial Conference Hughes attended during his sophomore year located? What story did Hughes tell about this conference?

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