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

2. Why does Langston become depressed?
(a) He is treated worse in the south than in the north.
(b) He is still treated unequally.
(c) Racism he witnesses even in the midst of disaster.
(d) Racism is stronger now than a few years ago.

3. 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 joins the track team.
(d) He becomes class president.

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

5. What is Hughes pleased to find about Africa?
(a) He feels welcome.
(b) It is not as primitive as the movies had portrayed.
(c) It is as primitive as he expected.
(d) The people are kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Africa, how is Hughes considered?

2. What does he do during this activity?

3. In what activity is Hughes involved?

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

5. Who are among Langston's classmates?

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