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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 will he be joining these people?
(a) In Chicago, Illinois.
(b) In Cleveland, Ohio.
(c) In Washington, DC.
(d) In Lincoln, Illinois.

2. What leads Langston and his father to get into an argument concerning Langston's future?
(a) Langston wants to be a mining engineer.
(b) Langston does not want to go to college.
(c) Langston wants to be a writer.
(d) Langston wants to be a painter.

3. Why is Lincoln known as the "black Princeton?"
(a) Many of the black faculty had gone to Princeton.
(b) Many of the white faculty had gone to Princeton.
(c) Many of the black students would later attend graduate school at Princeton.
(d) The courses are similar to those at Princeton.

4. Why is Hughes severely hazed when he first attends Lincoln?
(a) He is very intelligent.
(b) He does not appear as "black" as other students.
(c) He is one of the few black students.
(d) Because of his mild celebrity attributed to "The Weary Blues."

5. Who gives Langston a thousand dollar grant?
(a) His father.
(b) The member of the Black Renaissance.
(c) The Rosenwood Fund.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Bethune ask Langston to do for her students?

3. Why do Lucas and Hughes spend most of their evenings as guests in black households?

4. Where does Langston spend his first evening in New York?

5. Where does Langston attend high school?

(see the answer key)

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