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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Not Without Laughter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what activity is Hughes involved?
(a) The school band.
(b) The school paper.
(c) The school Communist organization.
(d) The school basketball team.

2. Why does Langston become depressed?
(a) Racism is stronger now than a few years ago.
(b) Racism he witnesses even in the midst of disaster.
(c) He is still treated unequally.
(d) He is treated worse in the south than in the north.

3. Why is Hughes severely hazed when he first attends Lincoln?
(a) He does not appear as "black" as other students.
(b) Because of his mild celebrity attributed to "The Weary Blues."
(c) He is very intelligent.
(d) He is one of the few black students.

4. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?
(a) He is accepted into Columbia University with a full-ride.
(b) After seeing his son's publishing success, Mr. Hughes agreed to send his son to Columbia University in New York.
(c) He is asked to come to Lincoln on a partial scholarship.
(d) After seeing her son's publishing success, Langston's mother sends him to Lincoln for college.

5. What does Langston's mother write?
(a) Plays.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Verse for church programs.
(d) Sermons for church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose poems does Langston like?

2. Why is this summer called the 'Red Summer?'

3. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?

4. In New Orleans, what job does Hughes take?

5. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?

(see the answer key)

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