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