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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 Mary make her living?
(a) By waitressing in a small diner.
(b) By renting rooms to college students who went to the University of Kansas.
(c) By cooking, cleaning, and washing for rich white families.
(d) By working as a professor at the University of Kansas.

2. Describe Hughes' family history.
(a) Abusive.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Mixed.

3. In what does Hughes become interested?
(a) Dance.
(b) Theater.
(c) Social issues.
(d) Writing.

4. Where does Langston enjoy watching Saturday football games?
(a) At the Kansas State University.
(b) At his high school.
(c) At the University of Kansas.
(d) On television.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Langston help this family?

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

3. Where is Langston Hughes born?

4. Why does Langston soon come down with the 'blues?'

5. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?

(see the answer key)

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