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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dr. Locke offer to do for Hughes while both men were in Italy?
(a) Teach him Italian.
(b) Introduce him to his sister.
(c) Publish his poems.
(d) Take him to Venice.

2. What did Hughes say was a "big sea full of fish?"
(a) Literature.
(b) Writing.
(c) Socializing.
(d) Love.

3. Who were Pail Robeson, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith and Roland Hayes?
(a) Some of the musicians Hughes remembered seeing at the Grand Duc.
(b) Some of the musicians heard on white radio stations in the midwest.
(c) Some of the musicians to arrive in Africa from Harlem in the 1920s.
(d) Some of the black performers part of the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s.

4. Where did Hughes find a room in New Orleans when he returned from his sailing adventures?
(a) On Basin Street.
(b) On Esplanade Avenue.
(c) In the French Quarter near the Cathedral.
(d) On Rampart Street.

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

6. Where did Hughes stay when he arrived in Italy?
(a) Place de'Cello.
(b) Estavilla.
(c) Denzenzano.
(d) Manchego.

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

8. When and why was Hughes invited to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee?
(a) To read his poems in 1929.
(b) To give an address in 1928.
(c) To give a speech at commencement in 1926.
(d) To read his poems at commencement in 1927.

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

10. Who came to Annette's rescue at fight at the Grand Duc?
(a) Florence.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Joe.
(d) Sonya.

11. How did Hughes meet the woman who was to become his patron?
(a) He was introduced to her by a friend in New York.
(b) He met her at the Metropolitian Opera House.
(c) He met her at the Lincoln University library.
(d) The Sprinarns referred him to her.

12. What famous author wrote the book "cane?"
(a) Julia Peterkin.
(b) Jean Toomer.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) Margery Latimer.

13. Who was one person Dr. Locke arranged for Hughes to meet in Paris?
(a) Maria Callas.
(b) Charles de Gaulle.
(c) Paul Guillaume.
(d) Raymond Carver.

14. What did Hughes by in a shop on Poydras Street that found him on his way to Havana the next day?
(a) Voodoo Powder.
(b) Good Luck Powder.
(c) Go-and-Stay Powder.
(d) Wishing Powder.

15. In his anecdote about the strawberry greens at dinner, what had the other diners done with the green stems?
(a) Others had eaten the stems with their ice cream.
(b) Others had simply left the stems on their plates.
(c) No one else had strawberries except Hughes.
(d) No one else had teh green stems on their strawberries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What college did Hughes cite as having an all-black faculty?

2. Where was Hughes robbed of his money and his passport?

3. Who was the first company to publish a book of Hughes's poetry?

4. Why did Hughes say he loved his patron?

5. Who did Rudolph Fisher sing with while he was in college?

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