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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Hughes refer to as the "years of Manhattan's black Renaissance"?
(a) The early 1900's.
(b) The 1930's.
(c) The turn of the century.
(d) The 1920's.

5. What job did Hughes finally find once he moved to Washington D.C,?
(a) He worked as a messenger for the newspaper.
(b) He worked for a wet wash laundry.
(c) He worked as an editor at a publishing house.
(d) He worked as a page at the Library of Congress.

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

7. What famous dance did the black dancers from America bring with them to Paris?
(a) The Vienesse Waltz.
(b) The Cha Cha.
(c) The Tango.
(d) The Charleston.

8. At Hughes's college, what was the racial makeup of the faculty?
(a) Mixed ethnicities.
(b) All black.
(c) Half white and half black.
(d) All white.

9. How did Hughes meet Bricktop Ada Smith?
(a) She was a waitress in his favorite coffee house.
(b) She was the new tenant in his building.
(c) She was the new singer hired at the Grand Duc.
(d) She was a fellow Metro rider every morning.

10. Who starred in "La Revue Negre" in Paris with Maude Russell and Claude Hopkins?
(a) Carolyn Dudley.
(b) Josephine Baker.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Rudolph Fisher.

11. How did Hughes learn to wait tables and serve drinks?
(a) Luigi and Romeo taught him at the Grand Duc.
(b) No one; he already knew how to do this.
(c) Bruce taught him after the fight at the bar.
(d) Bricktop Ada Smith taught him in her downtime.

12. Where was Hughes robbed of his money and his passport?
(a) In his hotel room in Genoa.
(b) On the train to the Riviera.
(c) In a restaurant in Rome.
(d) On the streets of Venice.

13. What did Hughes do with the twenty dollars he received from Crisis for his story?
(a) He saved it to give to his mother.
(b) He ate a large steak at a fine restaurant.
(c) He spent it all on food and liquor for himself and his friends.
(d) He saw Jeanne Eagels in "Rain" and then "What Price Glory."

14. What did people do on Seventh Street in Washington in 1924?
(a) Played the blues, shoveled coal into furnaces, and grumbled.
(b) Played the blues, ate barbeque, and laughed a lot.
(c) Played the blues, huddled around fire cans, and argued.
(d) Played the blued, talked about the whites, and complained.

15. How did Hughes describe the cockroaches in New Orleans?
(a) They were loud and some of them flew through the air.
(b) They were small but noisy.
(c) They were the size of Buicks.
(d) They were the size of mice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hughes hope to prove in his study of Lincoln University?

2. What was unusual to Hughes about the Hamilton Club Lodge Ball at Rockland Plaza Casino?

3. Who did Hughes bump into in New Orleans from his days in Harlem?

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

5. How did Hughes compare talking with Mr. Barnes about art?

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