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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Lincoln known as the "black Princeton?"
(a) Many of the black faculty had gone to Princeton.
(b) The courses are similar to those at Princeton.
(c) Many of the white faculty had gone to Princeton.
(d) Many of the black students would later attend graduate school at Princeton.

2. Of what is Langston in search when he returns to New York?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A theater for which to write.
(c) Another sailing vessel.
(d) A job.

3. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?
(a) By reading and writing.
(b) By working on his autobiography.
(c) By reading, improving his Spanish, and riding horses.
(d) By playing soccer with other boys in town.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. How old is Langston Hughes when his grandmother dies?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Twelve.

9. Why does Langston purchase a new suit and coat and travel to McKeesport, Pennsylvania?
(a) His is doing a poetry reading there.
(b) That is where is stepbrother lives.
(c) That is where his mother and stepfather are living.
(d) He is visiting his father.

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

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

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

13. After another separation with his stepfather, what does Hughes' mother do?
(a) She moves to Washington.
(b) She moves to New York.
(c) She moves to Alabama.
(d) She moves to Chicago.

14. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?
(a) His father is rarely around.
(b) His father is around most of the time.
(c) He makes many friends.
(d) His father encourages him to write.

15. What does Langston do when he hears how much his food will cost?
(a) He leaves his food at the counter and sits down to watch his friend eat.
(b) He eats it anyway and does not pay.
(c) He storms out of the cafeteria.
(d) He throws his food at the server.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leads Langston and his father to get into an argument concerning Langston's future?

2. Why does Langston soon come down with the 'blues?'

3. What does Langston learn about his father?

4. Why do the children do this?

5. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?

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