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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, I've Known Rivers.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has Langston's mother just done?
(a) Divorced his father.
(b) Moved in with her sister.
(c) Remarried.
(d) Had another child.

3. What does Langston learn at this community center?
(a) Acting.
(b) Painting and ceramics.
(c) Drawing and painting.
(d) Singing and dancing.

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

5. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?
(a) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.
(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 painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?

2. How does Mary make her living?

3. That spring, where is Langston invited to spend the summer?

4. High school has readied him for college. Does Langston have a chance of going on with his education?

5. What does Langston's mother make him do at church?

(see the answer key)

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