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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Busboy Poet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. When Langston has had enough of the ocean and asked for his pay, where does he travel?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

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 mining engineer.
(c) He wants him to go to college and become a painter.
(d) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?

2. What does Langston do when he is denied admittance because of his color?

3. What does Langston's mother write?

4. Where is Langston Hughes born?

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

(see the answer key)

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