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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, Rehearsal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Langston's father try to convince Langston to come to Mexico for the summer?
(a) He hints at getting full custody.
(b) He offers to pay his way.
(c) He hints at an opportunity to pursue a college education.
(d) He will buy him a new car.

2. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?
(a) He writes one of his better-known poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
(b) He writes a letter to his mother.
(c) He thinks about his life.
(d) He begins his autobiography.

3. What does this group of individuals decide to create?
(a) A black theater called the Apollo Theatre.
(b) A black academy called the Renaissance Academy.
(c) A black magazine of the arts called Fire.
(d) A black university called New Negro College.

4. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?
(a) In a private business school and in a girls' finishing school.
(b) In a public university.
(c) In a public school in Mexico City.
(d) In a private all boys' technical college.

5. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?
(a) His father is around most of the time.
(b) His father is rarely around.
(c) He makes many friends.
(d) His father encourages him to write.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Fire is finally published at the end of the summer, how is it received?

3. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?

4. What does his mother receive while they are there?

5. During this time he meets with many important literary figures of what movement?

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