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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. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?
(a) She never asks for help.
(b) She refuses to cook, clean, or wash for rich white families.
(c) She does not speak to white people.
(d) She charges a great deal of money to work for white people.

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

3. What does this group of individuals decide to create?
(a) A black magazine of the arts called Fire.
(b) A black university called New Negro College.
(c) A black academy called the Renaissance Academy.
(d) A black theater called the Apollo Theatre.

4. What does Langston do with the money the hotel pays him?
(a) He spends it at the theater.
(b) He saves it.
(c) He uses it to buy candy.
(d) He gives it to the Reed family.

5. What does Langston do when he is denied admittance because of his color?
(a) He runs away.
(b) He stays at home.
(c) He begins watching movies at the opera house.
(d) He complains to the management.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fisk College reward Hughes for reading his poems at their college?

2. Why is Lincoln known as the "black Princeton?"

3. Who will Langston be joining?

4. How is Langston treated in Africa?

5. Where does Langston enjoy watching Saturday football games?

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