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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose poems does Langston like?
(a) Only Longellow and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(b) Only George Barker and Thomas Campbell.
(c) Only Richard Aldington and James Alexander Allan.
(d) Only Alan Davies and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

4. Who does Langston's grandmother take Langston to hear at the university?
(a) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

5. What does Langston's father say about American blacks and Mexicans?
(a) They should all move to Mexico.
(b) He can relate to them.
(c) They are lazy and foolish.
(d) They should be given equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Hughes become interested?

2. How is Langston treated in Africa?

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

4. What does Langston think about the box of books he has brought for this journey?

5. Where is "The Weary Blues" published?

(see the answer key)

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