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

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

4. When did Hughes write his first novel?
(a) During the summer of his senior year at Howard.
(b) During the summer of his junior year at Columbia.
(c) During the summer of his sophomore year at Yale.
(d) During the summer of his junior year at Lincoln.

5. Who was A'Lelia Walker?
(a) A singer in a Harlem nightclub.
(b) The wife of an important politician.
(c) A patron of the arts who hired Hughes to write for her.
(d) A society woman who gave frequent and grand parties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Bricktop Ada Smith come from?

2. How did Hughes describe the cockroaches in New Orleans?

3. Why did Hughes want to return to college?

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

5. Who arranged for Hughes to meet with Albert Barnes at the Cafe Royale near the Louvre?

Short Essay Questions

1. What benefit cabaret was hosted by the NAACP to which Hughes was invited? Who did he meet there? Who was singing at the club when he entered?

2. Why did Hughes go to Washington D.C. after landing in New York?

3. What was hazing at Lincoln University? What kinds of things did hazing involve? What was Hughes's initiation ritual for his fraternity?

4. What event brought Hughes to the South in 1927? How did he react to the South and southern cities?

5. How did Hughes conclude his story of the racial survey at Lincoln? What changes did he witness at the school and in how many years?

6. What club did white people come into Harlem to drink and listen to music? Why did Hughes not go to this club? How did most Harlem blacks feel about this club?

7. Who was Hughes's distinguished visitor? Why was the visit an important one?

8. How did Hughes describe the wedding of Countee Cullen? Why was the wedding the talk of Harlem for a time? How was Hughes involved?

9. Where did Hughes attend college during the 1920s? When was the college founded and by whom? Where is the college located?

10. What poem did Hughes submit in Witter Bynner's Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Contest? How did the poem fare?

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