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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?
(a) In a public school in Mexico City.
(b) In a private all boys' technical college.
(c) In a public university.
(d) In a private business school and in a girls' finishing school.

5. Who are among Langston's classmates?
(a) Etheridge Knight and Cab Calloway.
(b) Cab Calloway and Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Thurgood Marshall and Alice Walker.
(d) Alice Walker and Etheridge Knight.

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

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

8. Why does Langston sneak into the medical school building?
(a) He needs a doctor.
(b) He wants to be a doctor.
(c) He wants to steal medical supplies.
(d) To watch students dissect cadavers.

9. Where does Langston spend his first evening in New York?
(a) With W.E.B. du Bois.
(b) At a friend's home.
(c) At the YMCA.
(d) At a cheap hotel.

10. How does Langston's father try to convince Langston to come to Mexico for the summer?
(a) He hints at an opportunity to pursue a college education.
(b) He offers to pay his way.
(c) He will buy him a new car.
(d) He hints at getting full custody.

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

12. What does Langston's mother want him to do?
(a) Get a job in Cleveland.
(b) Stay with her in Chicago.
(c) Go to Mexico.
(d) Move to New York.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. High school has readied him for college. Does Langston have a chance of going on with his education?

2. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?

3. What does Langston learn at this community center?

4. At what age does Langston Hughes begin to consider himself a poet?

5. What has Langston's mother just done?

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