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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. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?
(a) In a public school in Mexico City.
(b) In a private all boys' technical college.
(c) In a public university.
(d) In a private business school and in a girls' finishing school.

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

3. Who is the founder of Bethune-Cookman?
(a) Margaret Bethune.
(b) Marsha Jay Bethune.
(c) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(d) Mary Elizabeth Bethune.

4. How are his first few months in this city?
(a) Difficult.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Sad.
(d) Boring.

5. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?
(a) He becomes class president.
(b) He joins the track team.
(c) He is elected editor of the yearbook and class poet.
(d) He is prom king.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Langston attend high school?

2. From whom is his mother's grandfather supposedly descended?

3. In what does Hughes become interested?

4. Where is Langston Hughes born?

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

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