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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. How does Langston help this family?
(a) By cooking and cleaning.
(b) By tutoring their children.
(c) By branding the cattle.
(d) With the housework, which included setting hens and driving cows to pasture.

2. What happens during a revival?
(a) Langston accepts Jesus as his savior.
(b) The entire congregaton prays for the souls of the children.
(c) The children of the congregation are baptized.
(d) Langston finally attends church with the Reeds.

3. What does Langston do at this revival?
(a) He pretends to be saved.
(b) He refuses to join the children by the altar.
(c) He is saved.
(d) He hides in a back pew.

4. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?
(a) By playing soccer with other boys in town.
(b) By reading and writing.
(c) By reading, improving his Spanish, and riding horses.
(d) By working on his autobiography.

5. What does Langston's mother write?
(a) Verse for church programs.
(b) Sermons for church.
(c) Plays.
(d) Musicals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Langston know this influential woman?

3. Why does Langston purchase a new suit and coat and travel to McKeesport, Pennsylvania?

4. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?

5. What does Langston do at the end of the summer?

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