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Langston Hughes
  • 1. When was Langston Hughes born?
A) 1902
B) 1920
C) 1940
D) 1910
  • 2. What is Langston Hughes best known for?
A) Cooking
B) Poetry
C) Dance
D) Painting
  • 3. In which city was Langston Hughes born?
A) Chicago, Illinois
B) Los Angeles, California
C) New York City, New York
D) Joplin, Missouri
  • 4. Langston Hughes was a leading figure of which literary movement?
A) Harlem Renaissance
B) Postmodernism
C) Beat Generation
D) Romanticism
  • 5. Langston Hughes was a pioneer in which literary form?
A) Romantic Poetry
B) Jazz Poetry
C) Horror Fiction
D) Science Fiction
  • 6. Which famous musician collaborations with Langston Hughes on the songbook 'Shakespeare in Harlem'?
A) Louis Armstrong
B) Ella Fitzgerald
C) Nat King Cole
D) Duke Ellington
  • 7. Langston Hughes was awarded the Spingarn Medal by which organization?
A) Amnesty International
B) Greenpeace
C) NAACP
D) UNICEF
  • 8. What was Langston Hughes's father's occupation?
A) Lawyer
B) Teacher
C) Doctor
D) Farmer
  • 9. What university did Langston Hughes attend?
A) Stanford University
B) Columbia University
C) Yale University
D) Harvard University
  • 10. Langston Hughes's first book of poetry was titled:
A) Native Son
B) Invisible Man
C) The Weary Blues
D) A Raisin in the Sun
  • 11. Langston Hughes spent a significant amount of his childhood in which city?
A) Detroit, Michigan
B) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
C) Lawrence, Kansas
D) Atlanta, Georgia
  • 12. Langston Hughes's first collection of poems was published in what year?
A) 1950
B) 1926
C) 1910
D) 1935
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