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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. What leads Langston and his father to get into an argument concerning Langston's future?
(a) Langston wants to be a writer.
(b) Langston wants to be a painter.
(c) Langston wants to be a mining engineer.
(d) Langston does not want to go to college.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Has Langston become interested in writing?

2. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?

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

4. One day when Langston and a white friend go to a cafeteria for lunch, how much does his friend's meal cost?

5. What does Langston learn about his father?

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