View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hughes do before leaving for Paris?
(a) He fills out his will.
(b) He writes an article about preparing to leave.
(c) He says goodbye to his familly.
(d) He visits the South one last time.

2. What does Mrs. Bethune ask Langston to do for her students?
(a) Write a poem about them.
(b) Encourage them to be writers.
(c) Teach them a poetry lesson.
(d) Read some of his poetry to them.

3. Why are his readings canceled?
(a) They are afraid of him.
(b) No one wants to hear him speak.
(c) There is no place large enough hold the crowds that want to meet him.
(d) Due to public outbursts.

4. How does Hughes become involved with anti-war campaigns?
(a) Speaking to people at rallies.
(b) Advertisements for the radio.
(c) Writing advertisements for billboards.
(d) Writing and handing out pamphlets to the public.

5. Why does Langston become depressed?
(a) He is still treated unequally.
(b) He is treated worse in the south than in the north.
(c) Racism he witnesses even in the midst of disaster.
(d) Racism is stronger now than a few years ago.

6. Where does this trip south take Langston?
(a) To unversities and concert halls.
(b) To colleges, high schools, and local meeting places.
(c) To famous theaters.
(d) To community centers and high schools.

7. Why does Hughes ask for a loan from Knopf, his publisher?
(a) For the completion of a book of poems.
(b) For the completion of his autobiography.
(c) For the completion of his poems about Spain.
(d) For the completion of a book of short stories.

8. What does Hughes purchase?
(a) A bus.
(b) A plane.
(c) A Ford.
(d) A van.

9. Where are Hughes' plays performed?
(a) At Footlite.
(b) At the Wintergarden.
(c) At the Croswell.
(d) At Karamu.

10. Who does Simple represent?
(a) The famous black Americans.
(b) The members of the Black Renaissance.
(c) Artists.
(d) The average African American trying to make it in a white society.

11. When does the first Simple story appear in the Chicago Defender?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1933.

12. What does this group of individuals decide to create?
(a) A black university called New Negro College.
(b) A black theater called the Apollo Theatre.
(c) A black magazine of the arts called Fire.
(d) A black academy called the Renaissance Academy.

13. How is "The Big Sea" received by many critics?
(a) Angrily.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Warmly.
(d) Only slightly.

14. Where does Langston stay the following summer in order to complete his first novel?
(a) New York City.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Carmel, California.
(d) On Lincoln's campus.

15. To where do Langston and his mother move back?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what difficult position is Langston posed?

2. Why are Hughes and the crew sent to Odessa?

3. Is Langston interested in teaching after he has graduated college?

4. Where does Noel Sullivan, an old friend of Hughes', put him up?

5. How do Langston's plays become more socially relevant?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 581 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample