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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. Why does Langston sneak into the medical school building?
(a) He wants to steal medical supplies.
(b) He needs a doctor.
(c) To watch students dissect cadavers.
(d) He wants to be a doctor.

2. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?
(a) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.
(b) He wants him to go to college and become a writer.
(c) He wants him to go to college and become a painter.
(d) He wants him to go to college and become a mining engineer.

3. What does Langston's mother make him do at church?
(a) Be in the choir.
(b) Act out a role.
(c) Be an acolyte.
(d) Read the Gospel.

4. What happens when Langston shows up to claim his room key at Columbia?
(a) He is told that he will be staying off campus.
(b) He is given a key to a small, closet-sized room.
(c) He is given a key and a roommate.
(d) He is told that blacks are not allowed in the dormitories.

5. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?
(a) He begins his autobiography.
(b) He writes one of his better-known poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
(c) He thinks about his life.
(d) He writes a letter to his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Langston tell that his sickness derives from a hatred of his father?

2. What does Langston do with the money the hotel pays him?

3. What does Langston's mother write?

4. In what community center does Langston become involved?

5. What job does Langston have on his first ship?

(see the answer key)

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