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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 much success does Langston have with these submissions?
(a) No.
(b) Overwhelming.
(c) Little.
(d) Much.

2. Where does Langston continue to submit plays?
(a) Footlite.
(b) The Karamu.
(c) Broadway.
(d) Hollywood.

3. After his first year at Lincoln, where does Hughes rent a room for the summer?
(a) Queens.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) The Bronx.

4. What does his mother receive while they are there?
(a) Cancer treatments.
(b) Good care at a reasonable price from a black physician.
(c) A letter from his stepfather.
(d) News about her sister.

5. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?
(a) After seeing her son's publishing success, Langston's mother sends him to Lincoln for college.
(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) He is accepted into Columbia University with a full-ride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?

2. What leads Langston and his father to get into an argument concerning Langston's future?

3. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?

4. How does Langston's father try to convince Langston to come to Mexico for the summer?

5. What happens to the musical revue for which Langston works as a song lyricist?

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