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

2. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?
(a) By playing soccer with other boys in town.
(b) By reading and writing.
(c) By working on his autobiography.
(d) By reading, improving his Spanish, and riding horses.

3. Who will Langston be joining?
(a) His mother, stepfather, and stepbrother.
(b) His mother and aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His mother, stepfather, and half-brother.

4. Why does Langston soon come down with the 'blues?'
(a) He misses his mother.
(b) He is disgusted by his father's attitude.
(c) He does not have friends in Mexico.
(d) His father is gone most of the time.

5. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?
(a) In a private all boys' technical college.
(b) In a private business school and in a girls' finishing school.
(c) In a public school in Mexico City.
(d) In a public university.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Langston's mother write?

4. As what is Langston's mother employed?

5. What does Langston's father say about American blacks and Mexicans?

(see the answer key)

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