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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22, Simple Speaks His Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Langston help this family?
(a) By cooking and cleaning.
(b) With the housework, which included setting hens and driving cows to pasture.
(c) By branding the cattle.
(d) By tutoring their children.

2. Why do the children do this?
(a) They want to be professional singers.
(b) Their families bring them to church every Sunday.
(c) They want to assist with the service.
(d) They claim to be saved.

3. At what age does Langston Hughes begin to consider himself a poet?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Five.

4. What leads Langston and his father to get into an argument concerning Langston's future?
(a) Langston does not want to go to college.
(b) Langston wants to be a writer.
(c) Langston wants to be a painter.
(d) Langston wants to be a mining engineer.

5. What does Langston's mother write?
(a) Musicals.
(b) Sermons for church.
(c) Plays.
(d) Verse for church programs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?

2. What do the children do one by one?

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

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

5. About what is Hughes to report?

(see the answer key)

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