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