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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 is prom king.
(b) He is elected editor of the yearbook and class poet.
(c) He becomes class president.
(d) He joins the track team.

2. High school has readied him for college. Does Langston have a chance of going on with his education?
(a) No, because he does not want to go to college.
(b) A great chance.
(c) Little chance.
(d) No chance.

3. To where do Langston and his mother move back?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) New York.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Chicago.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has this place become?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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