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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the S.S. West Hesseltine?
(a) A private yacht headed to Africa.
(b) A freighter headed to Africa.
(c) A sailboat headed to Africa.
(d) A cruise ship headed to Africa.

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

3. What does Langston do at this revival?
(a) He pretends to be saved.
(b) He hides in a back pew.
(c) He is saved.
(d) He refuses to join the children by the altar.

4. What does Langston's mother make him do at church?
(a) Read the Gospel.
(b) Act out a role.
(c) Be in the choir.
(d) Be an acolyte.

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

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

7. One day when Langston and a white friend go to a cafeteria for lunch, how much does his friend's meal cost?
(a) Eight dollars and sixty-five cents.
(b) Five dollars.
(c) Two dollars.
(d) Forty-five cents.

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

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

10. Where is Langston Hughes born?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Joplin, Mississippi.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Cleveland, Ohio.

11. In what does Hughes become interested?
(a) Theater.
(b) Dance.
(c) Writing.
(d) Social issues.

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

13. Why does Langston purchase a new suit and coat and travel to McKeesport, Pennsylvania?
(a) His is doing a poetry reading there.
(b) That is where his mother and stepfather are living.
(c) That is where is stepbrother lives.
(d) He is visiting his father.

14. Where is "The Weary Blues" published?
(a) In the Paris Gazette.
(b) In the Nice News.
(c) In the London Times.
(d) In the Amsterdam News.

15. Where does Langston spend his first evening in New York?
(a) At a cheap hotel.
(b) At the YMCA.
(c) At a friend's home.
(d) With W.E.B. du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what community center does Langston become involved?

2. Who is Dr. Woodson?

3. Who does Langston's grandmother take Langston to hear at the university?

4. Who is Hughes' only friend in Africa?

5. At what age does Langston Hughes begin to consider himself a poet?

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