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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what does Hughes become interested?
(a) Writing.
(b) Dance.
(c) Theater.
(d) Social issues.

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

3. Who is Langston's only friend at Columbia?
(a) Chun.
(b) Marcos.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Juan.

4. 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.

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

6. By whom is Langston greatly influenced?
(a) Mary Hazelnutt.
(b) Carrie Walnutt.
(c) Helen Chestnutt.
(d) Sally Pecan.

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

8. What is Hughes pleased to find about Africa?
(a) He feels welcome.
(b) The people are kind.
(c) It is as primitive as he expected.
(d) It is not as primitive as the movies had portrayed.

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

10. In what community center does Langston become involved?
(a) The Karamu House.
(b) The Croswell.
(c) The Carousel.
(d) The Huron Playhouse.

11. Who is Dr. Woodson?
(a) A famous author of sociology.
(b) Founder of the association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
(c) His mother's physician.
(d) A professor at Lincoln.

12. As what is Langston's mother employed?
(a) A nanny.
(b) A cook.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A maid.

13. What does Langston observe while working at a soda fountain?
(a) The many people who support the war.
(b) Social interaction.
(c) Many different views on the war.
(d) Many different views on racial issues.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what activity is Hughes involved?

2. Why does Langston not like his middle-class relatives?

3. Where is Langston Hughes born?

4. What does Hughes do with the books?

5. Why does Langston sneak into the medical school building?

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