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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 think about his father?
(a) He misses him.
(b) He should write to him soon.
(c) He never wants to see him again.
(d) He wonders what he is up to.

2. In what activity is Hughes involved?
(a) The school paper.
(b) The school basketball team.
(c) The school band.
(d) The school Communist organization.

3. What does his mother receive while they are there?
(a) A letter from his stepfather.
(b) News about her sister.
(c) Cancer treatments.
(d) Good care at a reasonable price from a black physician.

4. What has Langston's mother just done?
(a) Moved in with her sister.
(b) Remarried.
(c) Had another child.
(d) Divorced his father.

5. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?
(a) He writes a letter to his mother.
(b) He writes one of his better-known poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
(c) He thinks about his life.
(d) He begins his autobiography.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Langston do when he is denied admittance because of his color?

2. What is Hughes pleased to find about Africa?

3. What is Lincoln?

4. Who will Langston be joining?

5. In what does Hughes become interested?

(see the answer key)

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