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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 is significant about Jesse B. Simple?
(a) He is very influential in Langston's life.
(b) He is a simple man, like many people.
(c) It is the longest running and perhaps greatest influence on the black community.
(d) His poem is the most published of all African American writings.

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

3. In how many books does Simple appear?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Ten.
(d) One.

4. Where does the incident occur where the colored teachers of a school were told they'd be fired if Hughes, an assumed Communist, read his poetry?
(a) Hammond, Indiana.
(b) Gary, Indiana.
(c) Indianapolis, Indiana.
(d) Detroit, Michigan.

5. During this time he meets with many important literary figures of what movement?
(a) The African American Movement.
(b) The Black Renaissance.
(c) The Black Wave.
(d) The Harlem Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hughes ask for a loan from Knopf, his publisher?

2. Who is the founder of Bethune-Cookman?

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

4. How does Fisk College reward Hughes for reading his poems at their college?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Langston do upon returning to the United States?

2. What happens to the movie for which Hughes had been asked to become a writer?

3. What does Aimie Semple McPherson say about Langston?

4. What poetry does Hughes write during this summer?

5. What does Langston do, while he is in Chicago?

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

7. Why does Hughes travel to Spain?

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

9. What does Langston do with the money he earns from the movie?

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

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