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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Langston's poems continue to appear?
(a) In Columbia University's paper.
(b) In The Crisis.
(c) In Fire.
(d) In the Black Renaissance.

2. How old is Langston Hughes when his grandmother dies?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

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

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

5. What does Hughes do with the books?
(a) He puts them in a crate.
(b) He throws them into the sea.
(c) He gives them away.
(d) He rereads them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Langston's only friend at Columbia?

2. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?

3. What is Hughes pleased to find about Africa?

4. What does he do during this activity?

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

(see the answer key)

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