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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. On what does he spend his money?
(a) Books.
(b) The theater and a train ticket to Washington.
(c) A train ticket for his mother to come visit.
(d) College courses.

6. Why does Langston soon come down with the 'blues?'
(a) His father is gone most of the time.
(b) He is disgusted by his father's attitude.
(c) He does not have friends in Mexico.
(d) He misses his mother.

7. How is Langston employed on a freighter?
(a) As a sailor.
(b) As a cook.
(c) As a mess boy.
(d) As a a petty officer.

8. When is Langston reunited with his father for a short while?
(a) His family moves to New York.
(b) He visits his father in Mexico for a summer.
(c) His mother and he move to Mexico City.
(d) His father joins them in Chicago.

9. Who does Langston's grandmother take Langston to hear at the university?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

10. To whom does Mary introduce Hughes?
(a) Stanley Crouch.
(b) Michael Baisden.
(c) Derrick Bell.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

11. 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 does not want to go to college.
(d) Langston wants to be a painter.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?

2. What do the children do one by one?

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

4. Who is Dr. Woodson?

5. What courses does Hughes take?

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