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

2. 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 university.
(d) In a public school in Mexico City.

3. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?
(a) He becomes class president.
(b) He joins the track team.
(c) He is prom king.
(d) He is elected editor of the yearbook and class poet.

4. As what is Langston's mother employed?
(a) A cook.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A nanny.
(d) A maid.

5. What does Langston's mother write?
(a) Musicals.
(b) Sermons for church.
(c) Verse for church programs.
(d) Plays.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during a revival?

2. In what does Hughes become interested?

3. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?

4. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?

5. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?

(see the answer key)

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