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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mary make her living?
(a) By renting rooms to college students who went to the University of Kansas.
(b) By cooking, cleaning, and washing for rich white families.
(c) By waitressing in a small diner.
(d) By working as a professor at the University of Kansas.

2. Where does Langston enjoy watching Saturday football games?
(a) On television.
(b) At the Kansas State University.
(c) At the University of Kansas.
(d) At his high school.

3. What does his mother do afterward?
(a) She whips him and teaches him a lesson about respecting other people's art.
(b) She sends him to live with his father.
(c) She begins to cry hysterically.
(d) She has him meet with the pastor.

4. Who takes Langston in?
(a) The Reeds.
(b) The DeVanes.
(c) The Smiths.
(d) The Campbells.

5. By whom is Langston greatly influenced?
(a) Sally Pecan.
(b) Helen Chestnutt.
(c) Mary Hazelnutt.
(d) Carrie Walnutt.

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

7. Who introduces Langston to the poetry of Carl Sandburg?
(a) Miss Emily Mills.
(b) Miss Emilia Hartkopf.
(c) Miss Ellen Conn.
(d) Miss Ethel Weimer.

8. Who does Langston tell that his sickness derives from a hatred of his father?
(a) His mother.
(b) His best friend.
(c) The doctor.
(d) Nobody.

9. In what community center does Langston become involved?
(a) The Huron Playhouse.
(b) The Carousel.
(c) The Croswell.
(d) The Karamu House.

10. Who does Langston take with him when he meets the editors of The Crisis?
(a) His stepbrother.
(b) His father.
(c) His stepfather.
(d) His mother.

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

12. From whom is his mother's grandfather supposedly descended?
(a) Francis Scott Key.
(b) Frances Quarles.
(c) Kole Black.
(d) Sterling A. Brown.

13. Where does Langston attend high school?
(a) Central Catholic High School.
(b) North Central High School.
(c) Central High School.
(d) Lawrence Central High School

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

15. Has Langston become interested in writing?
(a) Not yet.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes, just recently.
(d) Some.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Langston earn from The Crisis?

2. What does Langston do when he hears how much his food will cost?

3. What do the children do one by one?

4. When is Langston reunited with his father for a short while?

5. Why does Langston soon come down with the 'blues?'

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