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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Around the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Langston in search when he returns to New York?
(a) A job.
(b) Another sailing vessel.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A theater for which to write.

2. Who introduces Langston to the poetry of Carl Sandburg?
(a) Miss Ellen Conn.
(b) Miss Emily Mills.
(c) Miss Ethel Weimer.
(d) Miss Emilia Hartkopf.

3. Why do Lucas and Hughes spend most of their evenings as guests in black households?
(a) They do not feel comfortable staying in hotels.
(b) They are often unwelcome in hotels.
(c) They are welcomed by the communities they visit.
(d) They do not trust white people.

4. What does Langston do at the end of the summer?
(a) He stays in Mexico.
(b) He returns to the United States.
(c) He visits friends in Paris.
(d) He attends Columbia University.

5. Why does Langston become depressed?
(a) Racism he witnesses even in the midst of disaster.
(b) He is treated worse in the south than in the north.
(c) Racism is stronger now than a few years ago.
(d) He is still treated unequally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children do one by one?

2. Where does Langston attend high school?

3. After another separation with his stepfather, what does Hughes' mother do?

4. At what age does Langston Hughes begin to consider himself a poet?

5. What does Langston observe while working at a soda fountain?

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