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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Langston find to still be prevalent when he visits his mother?
(a) Open jobs.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

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

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

7. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?
(a) No, but he attends graduate school there.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) No, because he transfers to NYU.

8. 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.

9. Describe Hughes' family history.
(a) Mixed.
(b) Uneducated.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Abusive.

10. Where do Langston's poems continue to appear?
(a) In The Crisis.
(b) In Columbia University's paper.
(c) In Fire.
(d) In the Black Renaissance.

11. What does Langston do at the end of the summer?
(a) He visits friends in Paris.
(b) He stays in Mexico.
(c) He returns to the United States.
(d) He attends Columbia University.

12. Why is Hughes severely hazed when he first attends Lincoln?
(a) Because of his mild celebrity attributed to "The Weary Blues."
(b) He is very intelligent.
(c) He is one of the few black students.
(d) He does not appear as "black" as other students.

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

14. What happens when Langston shows up to claim his room key at Columbia?
(a) He is given a key to a small, closet-sized room.
(b) He is told that blacks are not allowed in the dormitories.
(c) He is told that he will be staying off campus.
(d) He is given a key and a roommate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does he spend his money?

2. In what does Hughes become interested?

3. How is Langston employed on a freighter?

4. In Africa, how is Hughes considered?

5. Who are among Langston's classmates?

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