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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Langston's poems continue to appear?
(a) In Columbia University's paper.
(b) In the Black Renaissance.
(c) In Fire.
(d) In The Crisis.

2. How does Langston know this influential woman?
(a) She sponsors the Garden Club to which Hughes belongs.
(b) She is his neighbor.
(c) She is his mother's employer.
(d) She is his English teacher.

3. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?
(a) A lot.
(b) Little.
(c) Quite a bit.
(d) None.

4. What does Langston do at the end of the summer?
(a) He stays in Mexico.
(b) He visits friends in Paris.
(c) He returns to the United States.
(d) He attends Columbia University.

5. What leads Langston and his father to get into an argument concerning Langston's future?
(a) Langston does not want to go to college.
(b) Langston wants to be a painter.
(c) Langston wants to be a writer.
(d) Langston wants to be a mining engineer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would Langston rather read?

3. In what school does Langston's mother enroll him?

4. What does Hughes do with the books?

5. What does Langston's mother want him to do?

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