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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, The Bloody Spanish Earth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does Langston's meal cost him?
(a) Forty-five cents.
(b) Two dollars.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Eight dollars and sixty-five cents.

2. Whose poems does Langston like?
(a) Only Alan Davies and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Only George Barker and Thomas Campbell.
(c) Only Longellow and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Only Richard Aldington and James Alexander Allan.

3. From whom is his mother's grandfather supposedly descended?
(a) Sterling A. Brown.
(b) Francis Scott Key.
(c) Kole Black.
(d) Frances Quarles.

4. On what does he spend his money?
(a) Books.
(b) College courses.
(c) A train ticket for his mother to come visit.
(d) The theater and a train ticket to Washington.

5. Who introduces Langston to the poetry of Carl Sandburg?
(a) Miss Emily Mills.
(b) Miss Ellen Conn.
(c) Miss Ethel Weimer.
(d) Miss Emilia Hartkopf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Langston rather read?

2. What happens when Hughes wakes the next morning?

3. What does Hughes do when he returns to Moscow?

4. What does his mother do afterward?

5. What happens during a revival?

(see the answer key)

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