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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 Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?
(a) Go to church every Sunday.
(b) Babysit her children.
(c) Read every night.
(d) Clean the house every Saturday.

2. How is Langston employed on a freighter?
(a) As a cook.
(b) As a a petty officer.
(c) As a mess boy.
(d) As a sailor.

3. By whom is Langston greatly influenced?
(a) Helen Chestnutt.
(b) Mary Hazelnutt.
(c) Carrie Walnutt.
(d) Sally Pecan.

4. At what age does Langston Hughes begin to consider himself a poet?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Twenty.

5. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?
(a) None.
(b) Little.
(c) Quite a bit.
(d) A lot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Langston move to Cleveland?

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

3. In what school does Langston's mother enroll him?

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

5. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?

(see the answer key)

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