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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. Whose poems does Langston like?
(a) Only Alan Davies and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Only Richard Aldington and James Alexander Allan.
(c) Only Longellow and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Only George Barker and Thomas Campbell.

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

3. 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 gives it to the Reed family.
(d) He saves it.

4. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?
(a) Babysit her children.
(b) Read every night.
(c) Go to church every Sunday.
(d) Clean the house every Saturday.

5. How does Langston know this influential woman?
(a) She is his English teacher.
(b) She is his mother's employer.
(c) She sponsors the Garden Club to which Hughes belongs.
(d) She is his neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes Langston in?

2. What would Langston rather read?

3. Where is Langston Hughes born?

4. What does Langston do at this revival?

5. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?

(see the answer key)

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