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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?
(a) He makes many friends.
(b) His father encourages him to write.
(c) His father is around most of the time.
(d) His father is rarely around.

2. What is Hughes pleased to find about Africa?
(a) He feels welcome.
(b) It is as primitive as he expected.
(c) The people are kind.
(d) It is not as primitive as the movies had portrayed.

3. Where does Langston spend his first evening in New York?
(a) At the YMCA.
(b) At a friend's home.
(c) With W.E.B. du Bois.
(d) At a cheap hotel.

4. From whom is his mother's grandfather supposedly descended?
(a) Kole Black.
(b) Frances Quarles.
(c) Sterling A. Brown.
(d) Francis Scott Key.

5. Why does Langston move to Cleveland?
(a) Langston's mother has found work as a maid.
(b) Langston's father finds work at a steel mill.
(c) Langston's stepfather finds work at a steel mill.
(d) Langston wants to attend Central High School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Langston sneak into the medical school building?

2. Of what is Langston an active member?

3. In what does Hughes become interested?

4. What does Langston observe while working at a soda fountain?

5. One day when Langston and a white friend go to a cafeteria for lunch, how much does his friend's meal cost?

(see the answer key)

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