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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the musical revue for which Langston works as a song lyricist?
(a) It closes after only one performance.
(b) It is very successful.
(c) It is never seen.
(d) It has a small amount of success.

2. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?
(a) He wants him to go to college and become a painter.
(b) He wants him to go to college and become a mining engineer.
(c) He wants him to go to college and become a writer.
(d) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.

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

4. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?
(a) After seeing his son's publishing success, Mr. Hughes agreed to send his son to Columbia University in New York.
(b) After seeing her son's publishing success, Langston's mother sends him to Lincoln for college.
(c) He is asked to come to Lincoln on a partial scholarship.
(d) He is accepted into Columbia University with a full-ride.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To where do Langston and his mother move back?

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

3. Where does Langston continue to submit plays?

4. What has this place become?

5. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?

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