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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 does Langston observe while working at a soda fountain?
(a) Many different views on racial issues.
(b) Many different views on the war.
(c) The many people who support the war.
(d) Social interaction.

2. Has Langston become interested in writing?
(a) Some.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes, just recently.
(d) Not yet.

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

4. What happens when Langston is a junior in high school?
(a) Langston's mother and father reunite in Mexico.
(b) Langston's mother and his stepfather reunite in Cleveland.
(c) Langston's mother and father get remarried.
(d) Langston's mother and stepfather have another child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?

2. After crossing into the country, why is Langston denied a sleeping car on the train?

3. Where does Langston's father offer to take Langston?

4. How does Langston's father try to convince Langston to come to Mexico for the summer?

5. Who does Langston's grandmother take Langston to hear at the university?

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