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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Columbia vs. Harlem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the children do one by one?
(a) They sing a solo.
(b) They thank their families and friends for their support.
(c) They approach the altar.
(d) They read a passage from the Bible.

2. What does Langston do when he is denied admittance because of his color?
(a) He runs away.
(b) He stays at home.
(c) He begins watching movies at the opera house.
(d) He complains to the management.

3. What does Langston do at this revival?
(a) He hides in a back pew.
(b) He refuses to join the children by the altar.
(c) He pretends to be saved.
(d) He is saved.

4. How does Langston know this influential woman?
(a) She sponsors the Garden Club to which Hughes belongs.
(b) She is his English teacher.
(c) She is his neighbor.
(d) She is his mother's employer.

5. What does Langston's mother make him do at church?
(a) Be an acolyte.
(b) Read the Gospel.
(c) Be in the choir.
(d) Act out a role.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Langston take with him when he meets the editors of The Crisis?

3. What does Langston's mother write?

4. What happens when Langston shows up to claim his room key at Columbia?

5. Why do the children do this?

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