In each of the following items, choose the verb that fills in the blank correctly.
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Langston Hughes ____ one of the twentieth century’s best-
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Hughes was born in Missouri and ____ his first twelve years in Kansas.
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Although Hughes ____ associated today with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, he did not arrive in New York until 1921.
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When Hughes got to New York, he ____ nineteen years old.
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Hughes quickly ____ a name for himself with his poetry, for he published “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in a national magazine that same year.
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Because he wanted only to write, not to teach or to work in an office, Hughes ____ nearly every kind of writing.
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He published short stories, essays, a play, and a novel; he also ____ newspaper columns and children’s books.
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During his lifetime, his poetry was very popular, and it ____ still widely read today.
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A line from “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” adorns the floor of the Langston Hughes Auditorium, which ____ in Harlem.
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Blue stone in the shape of a river decorates the floor of the auditorium, and an urn containing Hughes’s ashes ____ underneath the stone.
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