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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 happens to the musical revue for which Langston works as a song lyricist?
(a) It is very successful.
(b) It has a small amount of success.
(c) It closes after only one performance.
(d) It is never seen.

2. When do Langston and his friend set off for the South?
(a) October of 1951.
(b) October of 1921.
(c) October of 1941.
(d) October of 1931.

3. Who will Langston be joining?
(a) His mother, stepfather, and stepbrother.
(b) His mother and aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His mother, stepfather, and half-brother.

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

5. Why does Langston not like his middle-class relatives?
(a) They are rude and disrespectful.
(b) They do not care for his mother.
(c) They are snobby and indifferent to black suffering.
(d) They do not want him to visit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Langston take with him when he meets the editors of The Crisis?

2. To where do Langston and his mother move back?

3. In Africa, how is Hughes considered?

4. Where does Langston's father offer to take Langston?

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

(see the answer key)

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