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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. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?
(a) In a public university.
(b) In a private business school and in a girls' finishing school.
(c) In a public school in Mexico City.
(d) In a private all boys' technical college.

2. What leads Langston and his father to get into an argument concerning Langston's future?
(a) Langston wants to be a mining engineer.
(b) Langston wants to be a painter.
(c) Langston does not want to go to college.
(d) Langston wants to be a writer.

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

4. Where will he be joining these people?
(a) In Washington, DC.
(b) In Lincoln, Illinois.
(c) In Cleveland, Ohio.
(d) In Chicago, Illinois.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Langston's father try to convince Langston to come to Mexico for the summer?

2. While in Baton Rouge, what does Langston visit?

3. Where does Langston tour for the entirety of the summer?

4. Whose poems does Langston like?

5. What courses does Hughes take?

(see the answer key)

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