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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Hughes attend college at the height of the Negro Renaissance?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Lincoln Universtiy.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) New Yor University.

2. What made Hughes the "town curiosity" while he was in Italy?
(a) He was an American.
(b) He was tall.
(c) He was a black man.
(d) He was very shy.

3. Once, on his way to the train accompanied by a chauffeur and a secretary, who did Hughes meet at the station?
(a) White men who whistled when he stepped out of the limousine.
(b) His old girlfriend from college.
(c) Red caps who had gone to college with Hughes.
(d) His professor or English at Columbia University.

4. Where did Hughes stay when he was in New Orleans on his trip in 1927?
(a) On Rampart Street.
(b) On Bourbon Street.
(c) On Basin Street.
(d) On Canal Street.

5. When did Wallace Thurman die?
(a) January, 1939.
(b) May, 1935.
(c) December, 1934.
(d) September, 1929.

6. Who was singing "everybody loves my baby, but my baby don't love no one but me" at the NAACP fundraiser Hughes attended?
(a) Bessie Smith.
(b) Alberta Hunter.
(c) Josephine Baker.
(d) Bricktop Annie.

7. Why did Hughes want to return to college?
(a) To get a better background for writing.
(b) To become part of Washington black society.
(c) To earn more money.
(d) To get a better job at the Library of Congress.

8. Why did Hughes return to New Orleans and leave his job on the ship running to and from Havana?
(a) He became tired of the Chinese men on board the ship.
(b) He grew bored with the route of the ship.
(c) School was starting and he wanted to spend the rest of his time in New Orleans,
(d) He ran out of money and needed to earn some for school.

9. What was "Shuffle Along?"
(a) A song published in 1928 that became the anthem for Harlem.
(b) A musical review that marked the beginning of the Negro Renaissance.
(c) A song written for Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong.
(d) A musical review in which only men performed in night clubs.

10. When Hughes entered Lincoln, what was the racial make-up of the Board of Trustees?
(a) The Board was all black.
(b) The Board was 50% black.
(c) The Board was all white.
(d) The Board was 20% black.

11. When Hughes wrote "The Big Sea," how many years had passed since he had worked on his survey?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Eighteen years.
(c) Twenty five years.
(d) Ten years.

12. What did Hughes hope to prove in his study of Lincoln University?
(a) That having no black men on the faculty was good for the students' education.
(b) That having an all white faculty made students feel secure.
(c) That having an all white faculty was fostering an inferiority complex in black men.
(d) That there were no competent black instructors at the school.

13. What plantation did Hughes visit in Georgia on his way back east from New Orleans?
(a) The plantation where Jean Toomer lived.
(b) The plantation where Hughes' mother had worked.
(c) The Longfellow Plantation.
(d) The Greenback Plantation.

14. What was Bruce the chef's reaction to being fired from the Grand Duc?
(a) He threatened the boss with a sharp kitchen knife, frightening customers away.
(b) He clamly walked out of the back door and set the back of the building on fire.
(c) He screamed at the boss and threw a chair at him.
(d) He left without saying a word to anyone.

15. Where did Zora Neale Hurston attend college?
(a) Barnard.
(b) New York University.
(c) Newcomb.
(d) Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who starred in "La Revue Negre" in Paris with Maude Russell and Claude Hopkins?

2. In his anecdote about the strawberry greens at dinner, what had the other diners done with the green stems?

3. Why did Hughes take the summer off from the Grand Duc to go to Italy in the summer?

4. Where did Hughes stay when he arrived in Italy?

5. Why did Hughes never go to the Cotton Club in Harlem?

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