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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, The Bloody Spanish Earth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Langston's mother want him to do?
(a) Go to Mexico.
(b) Move to New York.
(c) Get a job in Cleveland.
(d) Stay with her in Chicago.

2. How does Fisk College reward Hughes for reading his poems at their college?
(a) With a thank you dinner.
(b) With free college tuition.
(c) In a large fee.
(d) With an article in the local paper.

3. After his first year at Lincoln, where does Hughes rent a room for the summer?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Harlem.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Queens.

4. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?
(a) After seeing his son's publishing success, Mr. Hughes agreed to send his son to Columbia University in New York.
(b) He is accepted into Columbia University with a full-ride.
(c) He is asked to come to Lincoln on a partial scholarship.
(d) After seeing her son's publishing success, Langston's mother sends him to Lincoln for college.

5. What has this place become?
(a) A church.
(b) A theater company.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hughes purchase?

2. What does Langston's mother make him do at church?

3. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?

4. In the spring of 1937 for whom does Hughes travel to Spain as a correspondent?

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

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