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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 father approach him one day and say?
(a) He wants him to go to college and become a painter.
(b) He wants him to go to college and become a writer.
(c) He wants him to go to college and become a mining engineer.
(d) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.

2. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?
(a) He joins the track team.
(b) He becomes class president.
(c) He is elected editor of the yearbook and class poet.
(d) He is prom king.

3. 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.

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

5. Why does Hughes ask for a loan from Knopf, his publisher?
(a) For the completion of his poems about Spain.
(b) For the completion of a book of poems.
(c) For the completion of his autobiography.
(d) For the completion of a book of short stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is "The Big Sea" received by many critics?

2. In what community center does Langston become involved?

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

4. Where are Hughes' plays performed?

5. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?

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