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1.	What country was Langston Hughes from?
a.		England
b.		America
c.		Mexico
d.		France

2.	What school of poetry is Langston Hughes associated with?
a.		The Confessionalists
b.		The Harlem Renaissance
c.		The Beats
d.		The Southern Agrarians

3.	What state was Langston Hughes born in?
a.		Missouri
b.		Maryland
c.		Minnesota
d.		Ohio

4.	Langston Hughes wrote his first piece of jazz poetry while he was in high school.
a.		True
b.		False

5.	What was Hughes' first novel, which won the Harmon Gold Medal for literature?
a.		Laughing to Keep from Crying
b.		Not Without Laughter
c.		Simple Speaks His Mind
d.		The Ways of White Folks

6.	What was Hughes' first collection of short stories?
a.		Not Without Laughter
b.		Simple Speaks His Mind
c.		Laughing to Keep from Crying
d.		The Ways of White Folks

7.	Langston Hughes' father left the United States for Mexico because of racism.
a.		True
b.		False

8.	For what publication did Hughes invent the character Jesse B. Semple?
a.		The New York Times
b.		The Chicago Defender
c.		The New Yorker
d.		The Wall Street Journal

9.	What University did Langston Hughes study at when young?
a.		Harvard
b.		Columbia
c.		MIT
d.		Stanford

10.	Which of Hughes' plays was the longest running Broadway play by an African American man until being replaced by "A Raisin in the Sun"?
a.		Little Ham
b.		Troubled Island
c.		Mule Bone
d.		Mulatto

11.	Langston Hughes spent time in Paris during the early 1920s.
a.		True
b.		False

12.	Hughes met the poet Vachel Lindsay while working as a busboy in a hotel.
a.		True
b.		False

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By: Tracy on 11/20/2008

Great test. A nice way to gauge one's knowledge

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