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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?
(a) He becomes class president.
(b) He is elected editor of the yearbook and class poet.
(c) He is prom king.
(d) He joins the track team.

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

3. Which of Hughes' works is published during this summer?
(a) Prodigal Son and Not Without Laughter.
(b) A House in Taos and Not Without Laughter.
(c) Mulatto and A House in Taos.
(d) Prodigal Son and Mulatto.

4. What does Langston's mother want him to do?
(a) Stay with her in Chicago.
(b) Get a job in Cleveland.
(c) Move to New York.
(d) Go to Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?

5. What does this group of individuals decide to create?

(see the answer key)

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