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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what school does Langston's mother enroll him?
(a) The Harrison Street School.
(b) Indian Creek School.
(c) Berkeley-Carroll School.
(d) Poly Preparatory School.

3. When Langston has had enough of the ocean and asked for his pay, where does he travel?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Paris.

4. How much does Langston's meal cost him?
(a) Forty-five cents.
(b) Eight dollars and sixty-five cents.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Two dollars.

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

6. How many parts of the African coast does Hughes see?
(a) Only a few.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Many.

7. Why is this summer called the 'Red Summer?'
(a) Because of the violence against blacks that ensues in the post war environment.
(b) Because many Chinese are moving to the country.
(c) Because the fear of Communism has spread like wildfire.
(d) Because the summer has record high temperatures.

8. What would Langston rather read?
(a) Historical fiction.
(b) Non-fiction.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Fiction.

9. After crossing into the country, why is Langston denied a sleeping car on the train?
(a) He is black.
(b) He is too young to have a sleeping car.
(c) There are not enough sleeping cars.
(d) He does not have enough money.

10. That spring, where is Langston invited to spend the summer?
(a) With his stepfather in Chicago, Illinois.
(b) With his father in Toluca, Mexico.
(c) With his father in Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) With his father in Cleveland, Ohio.

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

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

13. How does Langston know this influential woman?
(a) She sponsors the Garden Club to which Hughes belongs.
(b) She is his neighbor.
(c) She is his mother's employer.
(d) She is his English teacher.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?

2. From whom is his mother's grandfather supposedly descended?

3. In Africa, how is Hughes considered?

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

5. What does Hughes do with the books?

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