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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. After a while, when Langston stops going to classes, in what does he become more interested?
(a) Music.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Singing.

2. What is Hughes' job aboard the S.S. West Hesseltine?
(a) To steer the ship.
(b) To cook for the officers.
(c) To swab the deck.
(d) To watch over the petty officers' mess and make up their staterooms.

3. Why does Langston not like his middle-class relatives?
(a) They are snobby and indifferent to black suffering.
(b) They do not care for his mother.
(c) They are rude and disrespectful.
(d) They do not want him to visit.

4. Who does Langston's grandmother take Langston to hear at the university?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

5. How much does Langston's meal cost him?
(a) Eight dollars and sixty-five cents.
(b) Five dollars.
(c) Forty-five cents.
(d) Two dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?

2. On what does he spend his money?

3. When Langston returns to New York, he is introduced to whom?

4. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?

5. What does Langston think about his job as a doorman at a nightclub?

(see the answer key)

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