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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's mother write?
(a) Sermons for church.
(b) Verse for church programs.
(c) Plays.
(d) Musicals.

2. From whom is his mother's grandfather supposedly descended?
(a) Francis Scott Key.
(b) Sterling A. Brown.
(c) Kole Black.
(d) Frances Quarles.

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

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

5. Why does Langston move to Cleveland?
(a) Langston's father finds work at a steel mill.
(b) Langston's stepfather finds work at a steel mill.
(c) Langston wants to attend Central High School.
(d) Langston's mother has found work as a maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary make her living?

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

3. What does Langston learn at this community center?

4. What do people suppose Langston has because he is black?

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

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