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

2. What does Langston find to still be prevalent when he visits his mother?
(a) Open jobs.
(b) Unemployment.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

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

4. Why does Langston soon come down with the 'blues?'
(a) He misses his mother.
(b) He is disgusted by his father's attitude.
(c) His father is gone most of the time.
(d) He does not have friends in Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?

3. What does Langston learn at this community center?

4. Has Langston become interested in writing?

5. In what community center does Langston become involved?

(see the answer key)

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