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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Langston do at this revival?
(a) He pretends to be saved.
(b) He is saved.
(c) He hides in a back pew.
(d) He refuses to join the children by the altar.

3. When is Langston reunited with his father for a short while?
(a) His father joins them in Chicago.
(b) His mother and he move to Mexico City.
(c) His family moves to New York.
(d) He visits his father in Mexico for a summer.

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

5. How does Langston know this influential woman?
(a) She is his English teacher.
(b) She sponsors the Garden Club to which Hughes belongs.
(c) She is his mother's employer.
(d) She is his neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where will he be joining these people?

2. Whose poems does Langston like?

3. What happens when Langston shows up to claim his room key at Columbia?

4. Where does Langston attend high school?

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

(see the answer key)

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