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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From whom is his mother's grandfather supposedly descended?
(a) Sterling A. Brown.
(b) Francis Scott Key.
(c) Kole Black.
(d) Frances Quarles.

3. What happens when Langston is a junior in high school?
(a) Langston's mother and father get remarried.
(b) Langston's mother and stepfather have another child.
(c) Langston's mother and father reunite in Mexico.
(d) Langston's mother and his stepfather reunite in Cleveland.

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

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

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

7. When does Langston's mother send for him?
(a) When he is ten.
(b) When he is twelve.
(c) When he is eight.
(d) When he is fourteen.

8. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?
(a) He becomes class president.
(b) He is prom king.
(c) He is elected editor of the yearbook and class poet.
(d) He joins the track team.

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

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

11. How much money does Langston earn from The Crisis?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Twenty dollars.
(d) One hundred dollars.

12. What courses does Hughes take?
(a) Theater and music.
(b) Literature and theater.
(c) Music and literature.
(d) Education and literature.

13. What does Langston do that evening?
(a) He cries himself to sleep.
(b) He writes a letter to his mother.
(c) He prays.
(d) He calls his mother.

14. How many parts of the African coast does Hughes see?
(a) Many.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Only a few.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Langston take with him when he meets the editors of The Crisis?

2. Why do the children do this?

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

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

5. What does his mother do afterward?

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