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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After another separation with his stepfather, what does Hughes' mother do?
(a) She moves to Washington.
(b) She moves to New York.
(c) She moves to Alabama.
(d) She moves to Chicago.

2. To whom does Mary introduce Hughes?
(a) Stanley Crouch.
(b) Michael Baisden.
(c) Derrick Bell.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

3. What does Langston do when he hears how much his food will cost?
(a) He storms out of the cafeteria.
(b) He eats it anyway and does not pay.
(c) He throws his food at the server.
(d) He leaves his food at the counter and sits down to watch his friend eat.

4. High school has readied him for college. Does Langston have a chance of going on with his education?
(a) Little chance.
(b) A great chance.
(c) No, because he does not want to go to college.
(d) No chance.

5. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?
(a) By playing soccer with other boys in town.
(b) By reading, improving his Spanish, and riding horses.
(c) By working on his autobiography.
(d) By reading and writing.

6. In Africa, how is Hughes considered?
(a) Colored.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) American.

7. 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 mining engineer.
(c) Langston wants to be a writer.
(d) Langston wants to be a painter.

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

9. What does Langston do with the money the hotel pays him?
(a) He uses it to buy candy.
(b) He gives it to the Reed family.
(c) He spends it at the theater.
(d) He saves it.

10. Why is Lincoln known as the "black Princeton?"
(a) Many of the black faculty had gone to Princeton.
(b) The courses are similar to those at Princeton.
(c) Many of the black students would later attend graduate school at Princeton.
(d) Many of the white faculty had gone to Princeton.

11. How is Langston treated in Africa?
(a) He is warmly welcomed.
(b) He is discriminated against.
(c) He is treated as an African.
(d) He is mistreated because he is American.

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

13. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?
(a) In a public university.
(b) In a public school in Mexico City.
(c) In a private all boys' technical college.
(d) In a private business school and in a girls' finishing school.

14. How are his first few months in this city?
(a) Boring.
(b) Sad.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Exciting.

15. How much money does Langston earn from The Crisis?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Twenty dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does his mother do afterward?

2. What courses does Hughes take?

3. Of what is Langston in search when he returns to New York?

4. What does Langston find to still be prevalent when he visits his mother?

5. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?

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