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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Not Without Laughter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hughes' job aboard the S.S. West Hesseltine?
(a) To swab the deck.
(b) To cook for the officers.
(c) To steer the ship.
(d) To watch over the petty officers' mess and make up their staterooms.

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

3. In Africa, how is Hughes considered?
(a) American.
(b) Colored.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

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

5. Why is this summer called the 'Red Summer?'
(a) Because the fear of Communism has spread like wildfire.
(b) Because many Chinese are moving to the country.
(c) Because of the violence against blacks that ensues in the post war environment.
(d) Because the summer has record high temperatures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hughes pleased to find about Africa?

2. What does Langston's mother write?

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

4. Why does Langston become depressed?

5. What does Langston's mother make him do at church?

(see the answer key)

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