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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 has Langston's mother just done?
(a) Had another child.
(b) Remarried.
(c) Divorced his father.
(d) Moved in with her sister.

2. Who are among Langston's classmates?
(a) Etheridge Knight and Cab Calloway.
(b) Alice Walker and Etheridge Knight.
(c) Thurgood Marshall and Alice Walker.
(d) Cab Calloway and Thurgood Marshall.

3. 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) No chance.
(c) Little chance.
(d) A great chance.

4. Who will Langston be joining?
(a) His mother, stepfather, and stepbrother.
(b) His mother, stepfather, and half-brother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His mother and aunt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Langston become depressed?

2. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?

3. What does Langston's mother want him to do?

4. When does Langston's mother send for him?

5. How does Fisk College reward Hughes for reading his poems at their college?

(see the answer key)

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