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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 do that evening?
(a) He cries himself to sleep.
(b) He calls his mother.
(c) He prays.
(d) He writes a letter to his mother.

2. Whose poems does Langston like?
(a) Only Richard Aldington and James Alexander Allan.
(b) Only Longellow and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(c) Only Alan Davies and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Only George Barker and Thomas Campbell.

3. Why are Hughes and the crew sent to Odessa?
(a) In order to film shots that show villagers working in the fields.
(b) In order to film shots that resemble the Russian countryside.
(c) In order to film some cotton-picking scenes.
(d) In order to film some footage of a southern town.

4. With what difficult position is Langston posed?
(a) Wanting to write but needing to make money.
(b) Not having time to write all that he wishes to write.
(c) Teaching in a school in which he does not want to be.
(d) Writing material he has no interest in writing.

5. On what does he spend his money?
(a) College courses.
(b) Books.
(c) A train ticket for his mother to come visit.
(d) The theater and a train ticket to Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much success does Langston have with these submissions?

2. Which of Hughes' works is published during this summer?

3. The result of Hughes' time spent writing in this place is what?

4. Who is Langston's only friend at Columbia?

5. Where is "The Weary Blues" published?

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