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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where are Hughes' plays performed?
(a) At the Croswell.
(b) At Karamu.
(c) At the Wintergarden.
(d) At Footlite.
2. When does Langston return to the United States?
(a) In the midst of the Great Depression.
(b) A week after the Crash.
(c) After the Great Depression.
(d) Before the Great Depression.
3. Who gives Langston a thousand dollar grant?
(a) The Rosenwood Fund.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(c) The member of the Black Renaissance.
(d) His father.
4. What has happened to Barcelona, right before Langston arrives?
(a) It has been bombed by the the British.
(b) It has become a territory of Nazi Germany.
(c) It is bombed by German and Italian aircraft.
(d) It is destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
5. What does this group of individuals decide to create?
(a) A black university called New Negro College.
(b) A black magazine of the arts called Fire.
(c) A black academy called the Renaissance Academy.
(d) A black theater called the Apollo Theatre.
6. Does Langston read his poetry at this luncheon?
(a) Just one poem.
(b) Some of it.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.
7. Why do Lucas and Hughes spend most of their evenings as guests in black households?
(a) They do not trust white people.
(b) They do not feel comfortable staying in hotels.
(c) They are welcomed by the communities they visit.
(d) They are often unwelcome in hotels.
8. Who is the founder of Bethune-Cookman?
(a) Margaret Bethune.
(b) Marsha Jay Bethune.
(c) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(d) Mary Elizabeth Bethune.
9. Why does Langston become depressed?
(a) He is treated worse in the south than in the north.
(b) He is still treated unequally.
(c) Racism he witnesses even in the midst of disaster.
(d) Racism is stronger now than a few years ago.
10. What do Langston and Zell Ingram, a friend from Cleveland, decide to do?
(a) Travel to California.
(b) Travel to the South.
(c) Travel to Asia.
(d) Travel to Paris.
11. How do Langston's plays become more socially relevant?
(a) As he begins to write about current events.
(b) As he begins to protest the war.
(c) As he begins to write about the African American situation.
(d) As he begins to write historical pieces.
12. How does Hughes find the script, which was written by a Russian?
(a) To be a highly inaccurate portrayal of America.
(b) To be a highly accurate portrayal of America.
(c) To be a highly inaccurate portrayal of Russia.
(d) To be a highly accurate portrayal of Russia.
13. What does Langston think about his father?
(a) He wonders what he is up to.
(b) He misses him.
(c) He should write to him soon.
(d) He never wants to see him again.
14. After his first year at Lincoln, where does Hughes rent a room for the summer?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Queens.
(d) Harlem.
15. What happens to the musical revue for which Langston works as a song lyricist?
(a) It is very successful.
(b) It closes after only one performance.
(c) It has a small amount of success.
(d) It is never seen.
Short Answer Questions
1. With what difficult position is Langston posed?
2. Which of Hughes' works is published during this summer?
3. In the spring of 1937 for whom does Hughes travel to Spain as a correspondent?
4. During this time he meets with many important literary figures of what movement?
5. After they return to New York City, what does Langston begin planning?
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