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

2. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?
(a) His father is rarely around.
(b) His father is around most of the time.
(c) He makes many friends.
(d) His father encourages him to write.

3. What does Hughes purchase?
(a) A Ford.
(b) A bus.
(c) A van.
(d) A plane.

4. Where does Langston stay the following summer in order to complete his first novel?
(a) New York City.
(b) Harlem.
(c) On Lincoln's campus.
(d) Carmel, California.

5. Where does Langston continue to submit plays?
(a) Broadway.
(b) The Karamu.
(c) Footlite.
(d) Hollywood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hughes find the script, which was written by a Russian?

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

3. What happens when Hughes wakes the next morning?

4. What is Lincoln?

5. When he returned to Harlem in January of 1938, what does Langston do?

(see the answer key)

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