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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 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) He is asked to come to Lincoln on a partial scholarship.
(c) He is accepted into Columbia University with a full-ride.
(d) After seeing her son's publishing success, Langston's mother sends him to Lincoln for college.

2. How many parts of the African coast does Hughes see?
(a) Only a few.
(b) Many.
(c) One.
(d) None.

3. Why is Lincoln known as the "black Princeton?"
(a) Many of the black students would later attend graduate school at Princeton.
(b) Many of the black faculty had gone to Princeton.
(c) Many of the white faculty had gone to Princeton.
(d) The courses are similar to those at Princeton.

4. What would Langston rather read?
(a) Non-fiction.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Historical fiction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Africa, how is Hughes considered?

2. What does he do during this activity?

3. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?

4. Where does Langston stay the following summer in order to complete his first novel?

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

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