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

2. How is Langston employed on a freighter?
(a) As a sailor.
(b) As a cook.
(c) As a a petty officer.
(d) As a mess boy.

3. What does he do during this activity?
(a) He trips and drops the candle.
(b) He becomes bored and starts rolling his eyes and giggling.
(c) He laughs and makes fun of the reading.
(d) He refuses to sing.

4. That spring, where is Langston invited to spend the summer?
(a) With his stepfather in Chicago, Illinois.
(b) With his father in Cleveland, Ohio.
(c) With his father in Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) With his father in Toluca, Mexico.

5. What happens when Hughes wakes the next morning?
(a) He receives a letter from his mother saying his father is dead.
(b) His father is ill.
(c) His father calls him.
(d) He receives a telgram saying his father is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Langston stay the following summer in order to complete his first novel?

2. After they return to New York City, what does Langston begin planning?

3. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?

4. After a while, when Langston stops going to classes, in what does he become more interested?

5. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?

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