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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose poems does Langston like?
(a) Only Richard Aldington and James Alexander Allan.
(b) Only George Barker and Thomas Campbell.
(c) Only Longellow and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Only Alan Davies and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

2. What does Langston think about the box of books he has brought for this journey?
(a) He is glad he brought them.
(b) They will help him in his journey in Africa.
(c) He decides they are a part of his past.
(d) They will be a part of his new life.

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

4. What job does Langston have on his first ship?
(a) He is a cook.
(b) He serves the captain.
(c) He is a mess boy.
(d) He works in the engine room.

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

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

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

8. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?
(a) None.
(b) Quite a bit.
(c) A lot.
(d) Little.

9. What does Langston learn about his father?
(a) He is an artistic, intelligent man.
(b) He is a cold man, who only cares about making money.
(c) He is a stern, quiet man.
(d) He is a caring, loving man.

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

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

12. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?
(a) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.
(b) He wants him to go to college and become a painter.
(c) He wants him to go to college and become a mining engineer.
(d) He wants him to go to college and become a writer.

13. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?
(a) Read every night.
(b) Clean the house every Saturday.
(c) Babysit her children.
(d) Go to church every Sunday.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Langston in search when he returns to New York?

2. Who is Dr. Woodson?

3. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?

4. What does Langston's mother want him to do?

5. What does he do during this activity?

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