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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. High school has readied him for college. Does Langston have a chance of going on with his education?
(a) Little chance.
(b) No chance.
(c) No, because he does not want to go to college.
(d) A great chance.

2. Where does Langston attend high school?
(a) Central Catholic High School.
(b) North Central High School.
(c) Central High School.
(d) Lawrence Central High School

3. What does his mother do afterward?
(a) She sends him to live with his father.
(b) She whips him and teaches him a lesson about respecting other people's art.
(c) She begins to cry hysterically.
(d) She has him meet with the pastor.

4. What does Langston do at the end of the summer?
(a) He visits friends in Paris.
(b) He returns to the United States.
(c) He attends Columbia University.
(d) He stays in Mexico.

5. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?
(a) He wants him to go to college and become a writer.
(b) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.
(c) He wants him to go to college and become a mining engineer.
(d) He wants him to go to college and become a painter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do people suppose Langston has because he is black?

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

4. After another separation with his stepfather, what does Hughes' mother do?

5. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?

(see the answer key)

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