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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Central High.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What would Langston rather read?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Historical fiction.
(c) Non-fiction.
(d) Science fiction.

4. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?
(a) A lot.
(b) Quite a bit.
(c) Little.
(d) None.

5. How does Mary make her living?
(a) By cooking, cleaning, and washing for rich white families.
(b) By waitressing in a small diner.
(c) By renting rooms to college students who went to the University of Kansas.
(d) By working as a professor at the University of Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Langston sneak into the medical school building?

2. In what does Hughes become interested?

3. Who introduces Langston to the poetry of Carl Sandburg?

4. What does Langston do with the money the hotel pays him?

5. Who will Langston be joining?

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