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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Langston move to Cleveland?
(a) Langston's father finds work at a steel mill.
(b) Langston wants to attend Central High School.
(c) Langston's mother has found work as a maid.
(d) Langston's stepfather finds work at a steel mill.

2. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?
(a) She charges a great deal of money to work for white people.
(b) She refuses to cook, clean, or wash for rich white families.
(c) She does not speak to white people.
(d) She never asks for help.

3. After a while, when Langston stops going to classes, in what does he become more interested?
(a) Music.
(b) Singing.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Harlem.

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

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

6. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?
(a) He begins his autobiography.
(b) He writes one of his better-known poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
(c) He thinks about his life.
(d) He writes a letter to his mother.

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

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

9. Where will he be joining these people?
(a) In Washington, DC.
(b) In Chicago, Illinois.
(c) In Cleveland, Ohio.
(d) In Lincoln, Illinois.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Hughes do with the books?
(a) He throws them into the sea.
(b) He rereads them.
(c) He puts them in a crate.
(d) He gives them away.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Hughes' job aboard the S.S. West Hesseltine?

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

4. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?

5. In what school does Langston's mother enroll him?

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