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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 does his mother receive while they are there?
(a) A letter from his stepfather.
(b) Good care at a reasonable price from a black physician.
(c) Cancer treatments.
(d) News about her sister.

2. Who is Aimie Semple McPherson?
(a) An evangelist.
(b) A politician.
(c) A Communist.
(d) A housewife.

3. How does Langston decide to use his pay from the film?
(a) To travel to Paris.
(b) To travel through Asia.
(c) To visit his friends in Cleveland.
(d) To travel to Russia.

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

5. What has this place become?
(a) A church.
(b) A club.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A theater company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Langston tour for the entirety of the summer?

2. How is "The Big Sea" received by many critics?

3. Why are his readings canceled?

4. With what difficult position is Langston posed?

5. Into what language are Langston's poems translated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aimie Semple McPherson say about Langston?

2. What is significant about Jesse B. Simple?

3. What does Langston do after his first year at Lincoln?

4. What does Langston do when he returns to Harlem?

5. Where do Langston and his mother move? How is this beneficial?

6. Why does Langston write the poem "Tomorrow's Seed."

7. Why does Hughes travel to Spain?

8. What does Langston do with a four hundred dollar prize for "Not Without Laughter?"

9. What happens after Langston returns to New York City?

10. What poetry does Hughes write during this summer?

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