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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20, Theater in a Suitcase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Langston employed on a freighter?
(a) As a mess boy.
(b) As a a petty officer.
(c) As a sailor.
(d) As a cook.

2. What does Langston do with the money the hotel pays him?
(a) He uses it to buy candy.
(b) He gives it to the Reed family.
(c) He saves it.
(d) He spends it at the theater.

3. Of what is Langston an active member?
(a) The debate team.
(b) The Spanish Club.
(c) Several teams and clubs.
(d) The basketball team.

4. Where does Langston spend his first evening in New York?
(a) With W.E.B. du Bois.
(b) At a cheap hotel.
(c) At the YMCA.
(d) At a friend's home.

5. In what community center does Langston become involved?
(a) The Huron Playhouse.
(b) The Carousel.
(c) The Karamu House.
(d) The Croswell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hughes ask for a loan from Knopf, his publisher?

2. What does Langston think about his job as a doorman at a nightclub?

3. What does his mother do afterward?

4. In what does Hughes become interested?

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

(see the answer key)

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