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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the S.S. West Hesseltine?
(a) A cruise ship headed to Africa.
(b) A freighter headed to Africa.
(c) A private yacht headed to Africa.
(d) A sailboat headed to Africa.

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

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

5. What does Langston's father say about American blacks and Mexicans?
(a) They are lazy and foolish.
(b) They should be given equality.
(c) He can relate to them.
(d) They should all move to Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Langston an active member?

2. On what does he spend his money?

3. What does Langston do at this revival?

4. How does Langston know this influential woman?

5. When Langston returns to New York, he is introduced to whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place during Langston's senior year?

2. What happens when Langston becomes a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel?

3. How do Langston and his father get into an argument?

4. How is Langston reunited with his father?

5. What does Langston do, now that he has become interested in social issues?

6. How does Langston end up meeting the editors of The Crisis?

7. How does Langston act on stage at church? What are the reactions of the congregation and his mother?

8. Describe Lincoln.

9. What does Langston do while at Lincoln?

10. What happened to Langston, one day during a revival at the church?

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