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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20, Theater in a Suitcase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will Langston be joining?
(a) His mother and aunt.
(b) His mother.
(c) His mother, stepfather, and stepbrother.
(d) His mother, stepfather, and half-brother.

2. What happens when Hughes wakes the next morning?
(a) He receives a letter from his mother saying his father is dead.
(b) He receives a telgram saying his father is dead.
(c) His father is ill.
(d) His father calls him.

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

4. What does Langston do when he is denied admittance because of his color?
(a) He complains to the management.
(b) He begins watching movies at the opera house.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He stays at home.

5. Who are among Langston's classmates?
(a) Cab Calloway and Thurgood Marshall.
(b) Alice Walker and Etheridge Knight.
(c) Thurgood Marshall and Alice Walker.
(d) Etheridge Knight and Cab Calloway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Langston sneak into the medical school building?

2. Why does Langston move to Cleveland?

3. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?

4. How is Langston treated in Africa?

5. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?

(see the answer key)

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