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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. When is Langston reunited with his father for a short while?
(a) His father joins them in Chicago.
(b) His mother and he move to Mexico City.
(c) He visits his father in Mexico for a summer.
(d) His family moves to New York.

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

3. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?
(a) She never asks for help.
(b) She does not speak to white people.
(c) She charges a great deal of money to work for white people.
(d) She refuses to cook, clean, or wash for rich white families.

4. After another separation with his stepfather, what does Hughes' mother do?
(a) She moves to Washington.
(b) She moves to Alabama.
(c) She moves to Chicago.
(d) She moves to New York.

5. How does Langston help this family?
(a) By cooking and cleaning.
(b) By tutoring their children.
(c) With the housework, which included setting hens and driving cows to pasture.
(d) By branding the cattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does Langston Hughes begin to consider himself a poet?

2. Where will he be joining these people?

3. In what school does Langston's mother enroll him?

4. What does Langston observe while working at a soda fountain?

5. Whose poems does Langston like?

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