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